Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), Maharashtra, India. The name "Bollywood" is a portmanteau derived from Bombay and Hollywood (B (ombay-H) ollywood), the center of the American film industry. However, unlike Hollywood, Bollywood does not exist as a physical place. Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centers of film production in the world.
Bollywood is formally referred to as Hindi cinema. Dialogues are usually written in unadorned Hindi that would be understood by the largest possible audience. There has been a growing presence of Indian English in the dialogue and songs as well. Bollywood films are mostly musicals, and are expected to contain catchy music, usually a mixture of Indian and Western music, in the form of song-and-dance numbers woven into the script. Bollywood plots have tended to be melodramatic. They frequently employ formulaic ingredients such as star-crossed lovers and angry parents, love triangles, family ties, sacrifice, corrupt politicians, kidnappers, conniving villains, courtesans with hearts of gold, long-lost relatives and siblings separated by fate, dramatic reversals of fortune, and convenient coincidences. Bollywood Cinema is viewed by millions worldwide.
Imran Khan (born
Imran Pal 13 January 1983) is an Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood films. He is the nephew of actor
Aamir Khan and director-producer
Mansoor Khan, and the grandson of director-producer
Nasir Hussain. He appeared as a child actor in the films
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) and
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander (1992). Khan made his adult acting debut in 2008 with the romantic comedy
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, which was a critical and commercial success. His performance in the film won him the
Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. After the failure of his next two films, Khan was written off by the media, calling him a "one film wonder". He then starred in a number of commercially successful films like
I Hate Luv Storys (2010),
Delhi Belly (2011),
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011) and
Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (2012). Khan is regarded as one of the most popular, good-looking and stylish celebrities in India. He is a social activist, and has written columns for
The Hindustan Times. He is a supporter of
PETA, having appeared in events organised for the group. He married Avantika Malik in January 2011, after a ten-year relationship.
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