It sounds like a 3rd world rip-off of a true quality product. Like Nintedendo. Or Pyoneer. Or Phlem-Tech.

I saw a couple of weeks ago about 10 minutes of a Bollywood film shot in 3-D with "state-of-the-art" digital effects (LOL!) have to admit, though, the 3-D worked well. It was the U.S.'s Stereovision process. It was shown in conjunction with the Nuart's 3-D film festival.
 

THere were several 3d indian films made back in the past 3d boom
 

I'm not saying that we Americans only make good movies (far from true), but I did think "Lagaan" was quite laughable. Of course they win their little softball game and IMMEDIATELY AFTER THEY WIN the drought ends with a single rain storm! I live in Denver and we are in the middle of a drought and it's gonna take more than one rain storm to end it!

I have also noticed that all Bollywood films seem to be musicals. And the lip sync in the songs is always horribly off.

Bolly wally had no curl,

Bolly wally wasn't Bolly Wally

Was He?
 

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Last year K3G (Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham) reportedly grossed enough to make the US top 10 the weekend after Thanksgiving. However, EDI did not consider the numbers reliable and excluded K3G from the list.
 

They call that "looping", where the voice actor or singer sits at a console and the scene is run shot by shot in closed film loops while the actor or singer records into a microphone over and over, the sound editor selecting the best takes and assembling the whole.
Looping singers and actors often never appear on screen during their entire careers--like some who used to do voices for animated films in the U.S. In India, the female relatives of the famous cinema singer Lota Mangeshka dominated looping for decades.
 

My Indian friends told me that it was not at all unusual or remarkable to have a Bollywood film which dealt with some very serious issues of racial tension but interspersed musical numbers 'for light relief'. I can see the logic of this in a way, but it's not something that Western film-makers would normally do at all. They also pointed out that the Indian film-makers that have become very popular with Western arthouse audiences - e.g. Satyajit Ray or Mira Nair - never achieved real success in India itself.
 

In discussians I learned that most Indians did not like the films of Ray. "That's realism, not entertainment. Indians see too much of reality every day. Movies exist for fantasy relief; for entertainment."

From a family attempting to market their amaturish film in the US,
a totally unrealistic drama of self-sacrifice interspersed with the required songs, dances and comedy routines, I learned their view of cinema: "The purpose of Indian films is to show the virtu of the Indian woman."

And in a Bombay tin-roofed shed with earthen floors, a group of men proudly showed us, on a rusty old Moviola with a 5"x7" screen, a dissolve in black & white of a gossamer-clad goddess arising and dancing in a garden-of-Eden setting. This film clip, reminiscent of Melies, was their achievement of several days working from a Hindu literary classic--the birth of the virtuous Indian goddess.

Then again, one of these Bollywood ripoffs is playing 2 Regal megaplexes and an ex-Regal multiplex in New Jersey this week.

The blockbuster film GOA, about the takeover of a colonial port city
from foreign administration, incorporated scenes of a stampede of horses from a US western, and documentary footage from WWII (probably
the D-Day assault on Normandy.) Actually, Goa was taken without firing a shot. Probably the director would say these scenes were to provide emotional impact, but this mish-mash of a film was hailed by public and reviewers alike as a modern masterpiece.
 

Oh, and Bollywood LOVES negative dirt!