Evolution of Bollywood

2.  Reality
 Dreams, hopes and aspirations
 Morality
 Cultural influences
 Materialistic pursuits
 Market forces and audience (both audience taken in
consideration and ones taken almost for granted).
 Social interactions and conflicts

3. How would we study?

4.  Actors’ appearances
 Fairness; contrast hero and villain. Use of xenophobia to draw
contrast
 Face
 Musculature
 Skin exposure
 Love scenes
 Kind of movies: variation in plots
 Economic standing of actors
 Lead actor’s material pursuits
 Innuendos, curses
 Size and dynamics of family
 Society pressure (Log kya kahenge…)
 Music

5.  Establish the kinds of parameters for quantitation.
Start date: 10th June. End date 18th June for this section.
 June 19th group discussion on parameters and if we
should include some other local cinema industries
from world or Indian regions.
 June 20th to June June 24th practice run of
quantification of parameters from you tube videos.
 June 25th group meeting to decide on final list and
method of quantitation of parameters.

6.  June 25th to August 25th quantitation of
all parameters by splitting each
quantitation in 2 teams for double blind
cross validation. Reporting of
parameters
 Time series and statistical analysis by
either the same team (willing to learn
statistical details and nuances of time
series analysis) or by time series group,
followed by visualization of data. August
25th to Sep 15th.
Review and
revisions October
onwards.
Paperwriting Sep
15th to Sep30th