Why does Punjabi culture dominate in Bollywood?

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mugda

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Posted: 11 years ago

Bollywood films show more of Punjabi culture than any other Indian culture. Every second film is based in Punjab as if Punjab is the only region of India. They occasionally show Gujrati, Bengali cultures. Punjab region is mostly in Pakistan and Bengal region is mostly in Bangladesh but despite having only 3 to 4% Punjabis in India they show 80% films set in Punjab. Esp. 90% films of Yash Raj Films and Dharma Productions are about Punjabi families. Even majority of actors in Bollywood are from Punjab. Is it because Punjabis are fairer than rest of Indians? 😕

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Posted: 11 years ago

a large part of Punjab is still in India and same for Bengal... And obviously since KJo, YRF etc are Punjabis so they show Punjabi families... a lot of movies are also shot in Delhi these days, so Punjabi community is the most prevelant here...

And to show thumka dance and bhangra they will obviously have to show Punjabi families...otherwise how will they bring popular songs?

A lot of people in BW are from Punjab bcoz a lot of people who migrated post partition became huge stars... Raj Kapoor and the entire Kapoor family shifted to Mumbai and made it huge..same way many other Punjabis also got famous...this is why a lot of people are from Punjab... bt u will also find a lot of Bengalis... Gujratis are businessmen mostly, so they might be the financers of film...

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hasini009

@hasini009

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Posted: 11 years ago

because acting runs in their(Kapoor's) blood & genes😆

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-Sneha25-

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Posted: 11 years ago

Kyonki Punjabiyan di battery charge rehndi hai !! 😆

@Hasini, Too good. 😆

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MadhuriDixit

@MadhuriDixit

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Posted: 11 years ago

being punjabi myself, i never really thought about it before but one thing is that the punjabi language is fairly similar to hindi whereas other languages such as marathi, gujurati, or tamil for example are completely different so punjabi words can be easily incorporated into songs and such. and as sad as it is, the fairer skin could be a reason. also yash raj films and karan johar are all punjabi so that comes into play. also i feel like punjabi culture is perceived to be very colorful, joyful, green lush fields therefore a good setting for rom-coms and such. these could be a few reasons