Find the current time is Mumbai, India (Bollywood)
Bollywood produces 1000 films every year (Double Hollywood's output)
14 million Indians go to the movies on a daily basis
There are 1.1 billion people in India
India sells 3.1 billion cinema tickets each year whereas the U.S. sells about 2.9 billion tickets
By 2009, 4 billion cinema tickets will be sold each year in India
Bollywood employs 6 million people
Bollywood’s gross is about $8 billion to $10 billion a year
5 million South Asians in North America
(2.5 Million Asian Indians in the U.S.)
The annual spend of South Asians in North America: $78 Billion +
In 1899 the first Indian short film was screened, and Bollywood was born
Indian star Shahrukh Khan has 1 billion fans worldwide
(CNN, September 2005) - the same number as Tom Cruise.
In 2004 for the first time, more people globally watched Bollywood than Hollywood movies - 3.8 billion vs 3.6 billion
Paul Brett, British Film Institute (BFI), United Kingdom
The Indian film industry could tap 12% of the global entertainment market by 2008
Amit Khanna, President, Indian Film Producers Council
