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So
Bollywood is booming!
We say something is 'booming' when it is growing
quickly and becoming successful.
Bollywood is the name of lndia's film industry.
The film industry is everything connected with
making films.
The music industry is everything connected with
making music.
Sanjeev said that lndian films are screened
in cinemas in the UK and broadcast on TV.
We say that a film is screened in a cinema,
which means it is shown there.
And a film is broadcast on TV, means it is shown
on TV.
Well, l didn't know there were so many cinema-goers
in lndia.
A cinema-goer is a person who goes to the cinema
to watch films.
Are you a cinema-goer?
Do you like love stories?
A love story is a story about love.
Most lndian films are love stories, in fact
that the story lines are nearly all the same.
A story line is how a story develops.
So the story line of a film is what happens
in the film.
The audience is all the people in the cinema
watching a film, in a theatre the audience is
the people watching a play.
Young audiences in lndia are bored with love
stories.
This is a problem Sanjeev mentioned, he also
said illegal copying and piracy are problems.
'Illegal copying' is when somebody copies a
film without permission, it is illegal.
And 'piracy' is when people sell the illegal
copies.
Bollywood Studios lose money because of illegal
copying and piracy, it's a problem for film
and music industries all over the world.
Do you remember the expression Sanjeev used
when l told him l had lots of questions for
him?
He said: 'Fire away!'
This is an informal way of saying 'ask me those
questions'.
Bye for now! See you next week.
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