Bollywood report card 2009
The no-show by several big budget movies coupled with a two month-long stand-off between producers and multiplexes owners amid recession made 2009 a year which Bollywood producers and cinegoers would like to forget. Some 138 films were released this year, Kumar Mohan, Editor of Complete Cinema, a trade magazine told PTI.
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The no-show by several big budget movies coupled with a two month-long stand-off between producers and multiplexes owners amid recession made 2009 a year which Bollywood producers and cinegoers would like to forget. Some 138 films were released this year, Kumar Mohan, Editor of Complete Cinema, a trade magazine told PTI.
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Industry experts say that some of the issues plaguing the Indian entertainment industry are supply of irrational investment leading to unsustainable cost structures, severe shortage of creative and management talent, lack of transparency in production spending as well as revenue collection, piracy and high taxation rates.
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"The trend is mixed. If Wanted was an action thriller, Ajab Prem was a romantic comedy, Love Aaj Kal was a love story while New York had a background of 9/11 and terrorism," he said, adding that even though Saif-Kareena starrer Kurbaan had a backdrop of terrorism, it did not do well.
