Monday, February 8, 2010

INDIAN FILM INDUSTRY

Indian Film Industry

The Indian film industry is an integral part of the Indian socio-economic psyche and the most popular source of entertainment in the country. Indian film industry was conferred Industry Status in the year 2000 and is mainly private funded. Indian Film industry is the world's biggest film industry in terms of the number of movies produced and released in a year. In 2004, there were 934 films certified across, with Hindi accounting for 245 of them. The total number of admissions (people attending movies) is almost over 3 billion, which is almost double the US markets and three times that of the rest of Asia.

The Indian film industry comprises of a cluster of regional film industries, like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali etc. This makes it one of the most complex and fragmented national film industries in the world.

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