Slumdog Millionaire is a successful and popular Bollywood film. Bollywood films are movies that are produced in Mumbai in India‚ and this is one of the largest film productions in the whole world. In the film‚ we get an insight in India’s culture‚ and how the industry is changing. The film is a about a boy called Jamal. He is a poor 18‐year old boy who lives in the slum in India. He joins a TV‐show called “Who wants to be a millionaire” and tries out for the big price‚ 20‚000‚000 rupees
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Bollywood Actors with no controversies A Bollywood actor with no controversies is like a lake without water or like a desert without sand‚ more popular they are more the number of controversies some genuine some hyped and some just take air from nowhere. From Shahrukh to Salman or from Katrina to Kareena all have had their share of controversies. Though most of the filmstars like to stay away from it‚ there are a few like Rakhi Sawant and Veena Malik who like to be in the epicenter of controversies
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characters in mainstream Bollywood movies. It is deemed appropriate to examine this issue because women are a major chunk of the country‟s population and hence their portrayal on screen is crucial in determining the furtherance of already existing stereotypes in the society. The paper begins with a discussion on the field of feminist film criticism and how mainstream Hindi Cinema has restricted itself to defined sketches of womanhood. It also undertakes some glimpses from popular films to analyse this process
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claim that America is the land of opportunity‚ but I believe that those opportunities are for people who are born into it. To Kill a Mockingbird brilliantly illustrates how the caste system affects society and is still prominent today. Americans claim that the caste system is gone‚ but it is still here. The caste system in Maycomb is similar to those in America. Everyone knows everyone else by what their last name is. That last name limits a person to specific standard or raises the bar for them
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Most of India’s major television and satellite networks‚ as well as its major publishing houses‚ are headquartered here. The centre of the Hindi movie industry‚ Bollywood‚ is located in Mumbai‚ and the name Bollywood is a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood‚ the center of the American film industry. Marathi television and Marathi film industry are also based in Mumbai. Along with the rest of India‚ Mumbai‚ its commercial capital‚ has witnessed an economic boom since the liberalisation of
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Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy‚ hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation‚ ritual status in a hierarchy‚ and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution.[1][2] Its paradigmatic ethnographic example is the division of India’s Hindu society into rigid social groups‚ with roots in India’s ancient history and persisting until today. However‚ the economic significance of the caste system
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Bollywood Movies: Why Many People Love Bollywood Movies What makes Bollywood movies surge high in the entertainment business? What makes Bollywood movies unique from other movies? Find out more about Bollywood movies below. “From the glitziest of entertainment to the sparest of intellectual abstraction‚ from lavish spectacle to minimalist poetry‚ issues of gender‚ of politics‚ of poverty and plenty‚ India’s cinema encompasses them all. - Vasudev‚ Aruna (ed.) (1995)‚ Introduction‚ Frames of Mind:
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ISSN No: 2321-5488 Vol I Issue VIII Feb 2014 ORIGINAL ARTICLE International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Research Direction Editor-in-Chief S.P. Rajguru Welcome to Research Direction ISSN No.2321-5488 Research DirectionJournal is a multidisciplinary research journal‚ published monthly in English‚ Hindi & Marathi Language. All research papers submitted to the journal will be double - blind peer reviewed referred by members of the editorial board readers will include investigator
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The class system is defined as a “social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement.” (Macionis 209). The caste system is defined as “social stratification based on ascription‚ or birth.” (Macionis 208). The big difference between the caste system and the class system is that you cannot change your status in the caste system. The definition makes this clear as it states that your rank is ascribed‚ or in other words‚ given to you at birth. From the moment you are born into the caste
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Kayasth Add comments Who are they? The Kayasth people are a well-known community of traditional scribes or writers and village accountants. Their name is also spelled Kayastha or Kayashtha. The Kayasth are usually addressed by a number of synonyms like Lala‚ Lalli‚ Lal‚ Kaith‚ Kact or Kayath. Totaling a population of around 10 million in number and having 237 segments‚ they are spread across forty districts of the country in the states of Uttar Pradesh‚ Madhya Pradesh‚ Himachal Pradesh
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