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.
Riya Sen (born 24 January 1981) is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who comes from a family of actors including her grandmother
Suchitra Sen, mother
Moon Moon Sen and sister
Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child actress in the film
Vishkanya. Her first commercially successful role was in
N. Chandra's
Style, a low-budget
Hindi sex comedy released in 2001. Some of her other films include producer
Pritish Nandy's
musical,
Jhankaar Beats (2003) in
Hinglish,
Shaadi No. 1 (2005) and the Malayalam
horror film Anandabhadram (2005). Riya was first recognised as a model when she performed in
Falguni Pathak's
music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has appeared in music videos,
commercials,
fashion shows, and on
magazine covers. Riya has worked as an activist and appeared in an
AIDS awareness video with the aim of dispelling common myths about the disease. She has also helped raise funds for pediatric eye-care. Riya has faced controversies such as an
MMS clip with actor
Ashmit Patel, her semi-nude photograph on
Dabboo Ratnani's annual calendar and her on-screen kisses in a conservative
Indian film industry.
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