05-19-2007, 08:15 AM
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Smug article.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070517/wl_csm/obolly
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Hollywood finds formula to beat Bollywood in India</b>
By Mark Sappenfield, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Thu May 17, 4:00 AM ET
In the crowded and bug-infested movie halls of rural India, something is happening that has never happened before: An American superhero is saving the world while speaking flawless Bhojpuri.
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One way to prevent this flooding of indian movie theaters with these dubbed version of hollywood movies is to impose a extertainment tax for dubbed movies, like 6 to 10 times for foreign dubbed movie and maybe 2-3 times for indian dubbed movies. Movies shown in original form should have the same entertainment tax. The extra tax amount collected should be used for either financing local language movies or for establishing film/technical institute in that state. Unless this menace is tackled soon, indian film industry will meet the fate of other local film industries around the world.
Smug article.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070517/wl_csm/obolly
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Hollywood finds formula to beat Bollywood in India</b>
By Mark Sappenfield, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Thu May 17, 4:00 AM ET
In the crowded and bug-infested movie halls of rural India, something is happening that has never happened before: An American superhero is saving the world while speaking flawless Bhojpuri.
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One way to prevent this flooding of indian movie theaters with these dubbed version of hollywood movies is to impose a extertainment tax for dubbed movies, like 6 to 10 times for foreign dubbed movie and maybe 2-3 times for indian dubbed movies. Movies shown in original form should have the same entertainment tax. The extra tax amount collected should be used for either financing local language movies or for establishing film/technical institute in that state. Unless this menace is tackled soon, indian film industry will meet the fate of other local film industries around the world.