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Top 10 Bollywood films of 2011 [Commercial Success]

by Kaushambi on December 19, 2011 |

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Yearly countdown lists are incomplete without Bollywood coming into the picture. A first of sorts on Trak.in, this list takes a look at the top Bollywood films of 2011 purely from the commercial point of view, in no particular order. [Note: We have taken approx. gross earnings figures from Wikipedia, as they are the most [...]

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Top 5 Film Festivals of India!

by Kaushambi
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The Indian film industry over the past two decades has expanded phenomenally. Not only has it become deeply entrenched within the popular culture but the films have become more bold, experimental and innovative, both thematically and technologically. Owing to this change, there has been a significant rise in the number of film festivals …

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Shemaroo goes online with its Movies on YouTube!

by Viral Dholakia
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What can you say about the big screen experience of watching a movie? Well, for movies, a big screen is a big screen – and, nothing else can replace the cinematic experience of theatrical view in a movie. But, then, we can not forget that a large majority audience watches movies on small screens, even [...]

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Movie rental in India falls flat before even taking off? [Media Monday]

by rabigupta
movie rentals

That’s a question I have been asking people for quite sometime, not before I asked it on Quora (How Indian Movie rental services are doing? Subscription numbers for services like bigflix.com and seventymm.com?) and it was Sidharth’s answer which then triggered this post! When I tried to dig more I found out a question on [...]

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Should ‘Bollywood’ be stripped off from Indian Film Industry?

by Viral Dholakia
Indian Bollywood Industry

The Bollywood industry has come of age in this new millennium. It is, now, no more stereotypical to songs and action sequences typically followed by happy endings. The broad Indian cinema has become more sophisticated than ever before, now even targeting audiences outside India as well. In fact, successful directors such as Karan Johar …

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2010: the year which belonged to small screen!

by rabigupta
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First things first- A very happy new year to all trak.in readers. Thanks for bearing our posts for full one year ;)! But we promise to make them a bit more interesting and informative this year, so keep glued! I thought of not putting up this number ‘2010’ any more in trak posts but then [...]

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3G services give rise to Made-for-Mobile Bollywood movies

by Arun Prabhudesai
Bollywood on mobile 3G

3G on Mobile promises to bring about a sea-change in how we use data on our mobile phones. The higher speeds of 3G will allow consumers to do things that would not have been possible with existing GPRS / Edge internet services. 3g internet speeds will make it possible for consumers to access live …

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Media Monday: Bollywood’s Changing paradigm with Shorter movies & weekly collections !

by Viral Dholakia
bollywood-business

There was an era of classic movies where the producers and directors used to spend their lives on making a good movie. Those were the kind of real stuff movies where the audience can connect with even today – with their characters, stories, ever-green songs (even lyrics) and the human traits that old movies dealt [...]

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Now, You can Filter the Objectionable Content on a DVD at Home

by Viral Dholakia
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Until now, we had come across the concept of child lock on television channels to prevent children from accessing any dangerous or unwanted content. But, in this era of DVD usage, what would you do while watching a film or a documentary, with potentially offensive scenes, on a DVD with pre-loaded content, while viewing it [...]

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A Hit Bollywood Song – Credit goes to the actor or Lyricist?

by Viral Dholakia
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Youth icon Aamir Khan claims that the credit for the hit film songs must go to actors, not lyricists. He believes that the actor makes a film song popular and not the lyricist who gives words and a theme to the formation of the song. A lyricist is the person who is originally responsible for [...]

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Are you against movie censorship?

by rabigupta

If your answer to this question is yes, then you’re thinking is in line with some of India’s cult Movie Directors who think that censorship causes Films to lose ‘real’ touch. Very recently Anurag Kashyap said this- “There shouldn’t be any censorship on making a film. We are still very conservative about the term sex,”"I [...]

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Media Monday: Aamir Khan has a hot shot Resume for Marketing Post

by rabigupta
3-idiots

It looks like Aamir is preparing himself for a top class Job offer after his Bollywood Career. Why? Well, his out-of-box marketing strategies must be catching the eyes of top class media honchos and who knows he might be having some offers already. On this Business Blog it makes sense to have a look …

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From real hits to fake number game- Bollywood’s new strategy to lure viewers

by rabigupta
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Did you read that big Ad on almost every news paper saying “Blue collects 100 Crores in revenue”? And, more importantly did you read the same movie’s review on any newspaper or website? Quite contrasting. Right? Call it a normal phenomena or astute strategy but this has surely taken toll on almost every new Bollywood [...]

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Media Monday: Are Movie Reviews Fixed?

by Arun Prabhudesai
Kaminey

Yesterday when I went to watch “Kaminey” with a bunch of friends, I was excited as the reviews of the movie were great. Right from TOI to Hindustan Times to CNN-IBN, every one gave glowing reviews to the movie. When the movie started I couldn’t relate to it, but kept on …

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Media Monday: Hollywood’s Best Acting Schools coming to India!

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Well this is interesting! One of the Hollywood’s best Acting schools is soon going to launch one of its international branches in India. Lee Strasberg Institute boasts of Alumni such as Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Adam Sandler, Al Pacino and the likes.

This news got me thinking. India has some good Acting schools but in this ever growing industry of Bollywood and Television there has always been dearth of good actors and film makers.

Bollywood’s trend has always remained the same. League “A” stars are mostly sons/daughters of famous Actors, Directors or Film makers. And usually they learn acting after becoming stars (Shahrukh Khan is an exception).

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