Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry (63 page)

single-screen theaters,
71–73
,
115–17
,
329–31
; class composition of audiences

at,
345
; sizes of,
9–10
; spatial hierarchy in,
295
; taxation of,
71–73
,
376
n. 45; ticket prices,
336–37
; viewing experience at,
338–40

social respectability.
See
respectability

songs: commercial significance of,
246
,
253–55
,
326–28
; as distinctive feature of Bollywood,
251–59
; as production fiction,
257–59

spatial politics,
217

spectatorship,
283–85

stardom,
200
; definition of,
208
; gendered dimensions of,
159
,
209

stars,
207–13
,
261–62
; as central to the production process,
34–35
,
208–9
,
223
; cost of,
393
n. 34; gendered dimension of,
210–11
; as mode or risk manage-ment,
271–73
; production of,
26
,
212

state: cultural policies of,
52
,
58
,
67
; devel-opmentalistpolicies of,
48
; filmmaking policies of,
41–43
,
56
; industry status granted by,
41–43
,
65–67
,
69–74
,
265
; taxation of film industry by,
54
; television policies of,
372
n. 2

studios: and demise of the studio system,
5
; as gendered space,
125–26
; only as production facilities,
6

success-talk,
250–51

symbolic capital,
2–4
,
15
,
27
,
31
,
88
,
316
,
355
; of stars,
200–202

synchronized sound: in Hindi cinema,
227–28

television,
256
,
371
nn. 3–4; competition for audiences,
83
,
94–95
,
113–17
,
289
; as revenue source for film indus-try,
84
,
263
; as untaxed by the state,
55

theaters.
See
cinema hall;multiplex theaters;single-screen theaters

uncertainty: of film finances,
189–90
; as key process in production culture,
9–12
,
244–47

universal hit,
283
,
358
; diminished signi-ficanceof,
351–55

video,
82
; impact on film industry,
72
,
189
,
379
n. 20,
384
n.
11

video piracy,
24–25
,
82
,
93–94
,
384
nn. 11–12

viewing experience,
110–17
; at video par-lors,
82–83
.
See also
cinema hall; multi-plex theaters

winner’s curse,
191

women,
130
; in Hindi cinema,
120–25
.
See
also
actresses; gender

work culture,
22
,
240–45
; of the Hindi film industry,
156
,
215–16
,
225–27
,
59
; as oral,
222–25

Working Group on National Film Policy,
56–60
,
74
,
178–84
,
372
n. 4

Tejaswini Ganti is an associate professor of anthropology at New York University. She is the author of
Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular
Hindi Cinema
(Routledge, 2004).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ganti, Tejaswini.
Producing Bollywood: inside the contemporary Hindi film industry /
Tejaswini Ganti.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8223-5202-0 (cloth: alk. paper) 
ISBN 978-0-8223-5213-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Includes index. 2. Motion picture industry—India—Bombay.
3. Motion pictures, Hindi—India—Bombay. I. Title.
PN1993.5.i8g27 2012
791.430954ʹ792—dc23 2011035964

TABLE 5
TOP BOX-OFFICE SUCCESSES 2003–2010

Note
: * represents individuals from film families; boldface represents corporate producers.

Source
: Based on data compiled from
Film Information
, January 7, 2006–January 7, 2011.