Bollywood and Blogs, a match made in heaven
An article in the Hindustani Times online is giving us bloggers our due when it comes to propogating the one true faith: cinema. Blogs and Bollywood: The new relationship.
Innovation in promoting films is becoming the name of the game in Bollywood. Blogging is the new tool. It is now no longer an exclusive method that only journalists and software geeks employ; it is fast being adopted by film stars and filmmakers to promote their movies.
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But it is only the blogs run by famous Bollywood names which pull in surfers, say a blog by Big B or Shah Rukh Khan would get many hits but there is little hope of blogs by small time stars grabbing eyeballs.
Aw, nuts! Well, maybe one day I’ll prove them wrong. And to start, here are a bunch of great blogs that deal with Bollywood.
Bollywood Blog (Sprachenschte Deutch?)
Beth Loves Bollywood Spracheschte Awsome?
Of course, Desi Fans.
Jaya Teas … yes. Jaya teas.
February 8th, 2006 at 12:10 am
You’re right, my Bollywoodblog is written in German only. Since one year and some month bollywood is really popular in germany with some ever growing community.
i also dont agree the article: blogs by people who really care about bollywood will allways be more interesting than some less good made ones by stars. of course, if some star will ever write ome real blog with daily or weekly articles, there will much people read it. but blogging is some way of communication, not only of promotion
greetings
michael
February 22nd, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Thank you so much for including me! And I agree with Michael - what matters is that the author cares and is thoughtful about the topic, and that blogging should be about sharing thoughts rather than promoting particular movies. That’s why the blogs and “my space” things for particuilar movies (like Rang De Basanti) always strike me as so artificial (of course, they are artificial, as the “authors” are ficitonal characters voiced by paid writers).
April 13th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
sure is growing
July 8th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Thanks for the great blogs. All of the views by these bloggers are pretty insightful and its pretty amazing the response Bollywood generates and is able to break all sorts of language and cultural barriers.
January 20th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Yes, Actors like Aamir had adopted it and many more are coming to the same way