Saturday, July 14, 2007

Hollywood v/s Bollywood

Recently i have stopped watching Bollywood movies ( in the theater at least - i do watch at home on tv). But I'm more inclined towards watching Hollywood flicks either in theaters or on television.

The reason being, I'm sick of those romantic love triangle movies that Karan Johar keeps on bringing or the low budget "Underworld" or gangster flicks. Its too predictable for me.

Well i dont think its only me who is more inclined to watch Hollywood blockbusters. i read recently in the papers that the ticket sales for Hollywood flicks was way too much than our bollywood ones. For that matter the Rajnikant starrer "Sivaji" earned more at the box office. There have been hits like "Spiderman 3", "Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End" & most recently "Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix." to hit the screens and do tremendously well in India.

Probably these films are more appealing to the modern literate crowd than the sorry old bollywood ones. Literate meaning college goers like me :). Well i donno wat bollywood can do to improve their standards & copying stories from hollywood flicks is no means of doing that, but they are surely losing out on the race at the Indian box office to Hollywood ones.

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