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nstead of pulsating to the beat of bhangra dance routines, India's film studios are likely to fall silent tomorrow after Bollywood producers called an indefinite strike.
The action is over a dispute about how box-office takings are split between the producers, who finance the films, and the owners of Western-style multiplex cinemas in India who are refusing to pay more to show what they say has been a string of loss-mak-ing turkeys.
The dispute has threatened to delay the release of dozens of titles and could cost the 1 billion-a-year Hindi-language movie industry tens of millions in lost ticket sales, analysts say.
It also emphasises how Bollywood, which for decades was fuelled by underworld money and dominated by family dynasties, is struggling to reinvent itself in the image of Hollywood to boost profits.
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The action is over a dispute about how box-office takings are split between the producers, who finance the films, and the owners of Western-style multiplex cinemas in India who are refusing to pay more to show what they say has been a string of loss-mak-ing turkeys.
The dispute has threatened to delay the release of dozens of titles and could cost the 1 billion-a-year Hindi-language movie industry tens of millions in lost ticket sales, analysts say.
It also emphasises how Bollywood, which for decades was fuelled by underworld money and dominated by family dynasties, is struggling to reinvent itself in the image of Hollywood to boost profits.
http://www.filmicafe.com/news_detail.php?news_id=10283
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