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Bollywood Bound
200256 min 6 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Nisha Pahuja
Production: Karen King-ChigboLouise Lore
Bollywood, India's vast movie-making centre, produces more than 300 movies annually, surpassing Hollywood many times. Each day hundreds of people descend on the city of Bombay with Bollywood dreams in their eyes. They come from the fields of Punjab, the plains of Gujarat, the deserts of Rajasthan and more recently... the suburbs of Canada.
Bollywood Bound is the story of four young Canadians looking for fame ... Indian style. Raised on a diet of Hindi movies, success in Indian cinema does not seem so far away to these young actors.
At home, they would consider themselves lucky to land small ethnic roles in television or movies. But in Bombay, they could be big! These young, hip, well-educated and middle class talents project a unique East-West blend of cultures that is increasingly coveted by Asian audiences.
Follow the ups and downs of Neeru, Vikram, Vekeana and Ruby, already the most famous Canadian in India, from casting calls to auditions and rehearsals - as Bollywood Bound conveys a new twist on an old showbiz tale. Amid the fast-changing world of cultural convergence this is also the story of finding one's own place in the world.
Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > ActingCommunity and Society
- Foreign Countries > Asia
- Developing Countries > India, Nepal and Pakistan
Credits
- director
- Nisha Pahuja
- producer
- Karen King-Chigbo
- editor
- Steve Weslak
- director of photography
- Ali Kazimi
- sound recordist
- P.M. Satheesh
- sound design
- Ed Douglas
- executive producer
- Louise Lore
- director mentor
- Ali Kazimi
- creative consultant
- Kalyani Vittala
- Paromita Vohra
- Vikram Chandra
- director's intern
- Pamila Matharu
- pre-production co-ordinator
- Anjali Panjabi
- location manager
- Pradip Acharya
- production consultant
- Kalyan Mukherjee
- Bubbles
- production supervisor
- Kemp Archibald
- James Fiege
- assistant production supervisor
- Mark Wilson
- Michael Sardella
- production coordinator
- Nadine Simunic
- program administrator
- Ida Di Fruscia
- additional cinematography
- C.K. Muraleedharan
- Avijit Mukul Kishore
- Kirk Tougas
- Naren Shankar
- Terry Zazulak
- Gundar Lipsbergs
- Nisha Pahuja
- Kemp Archibald
- additional sound recording
- Leigh Hunt Wilks
- Jeff Carter
- Sanjay Mehta
- Steve McNamee
- Jissy Michael
- Caleb A. Mose
- assistant video editor
- Anita Malhotra
- Merle Alexander
- additional video editor
- Jacqueline Carmody
- Didier Kennel
- assistant sound editor
- Patricia Quintanilla
- production assistant
- Branden Bratuhin
- stills photographer
- Paul Fairweather
- Vincent Wong
- Ali Kazimi
- Priya Sewani
- researcher
- Nisha Pahuja
- visual researcher
- Pankaj Rishi Kumar
- Nisha Pahuja
- Pamila Matharu
- Mo-Ling Chui
- music clearances
- Ann Mayall
- Pankaj Rishi Kumar
- Nisha Pahuja
- Pamila Matharu
- online editor
- Andrew Mandziuk
- colourist
- Andrew Mandziuk
- Rostrum camera
- Ronaldo Vesouza
- title design
- Alex Boothby