Booyah for Bollywood

I expect to find something different today when I go to see “The Guru,” Hollywood’s attempt to capture the spirit of Bollywood. As you may know, Bollywood is that part of the Indian film industry that makes films for the masses, especially big-number musicals supposedly reminiscent of old Hollywood.

By the way, one story has it that Bollywood was a term coined in the 1970s by a journalist in Bombay. In an 2002 article in Film Comment , writer David Chute said that the Indian film professionals dislike the word because they “resent the implication that the entire country’s movie industry — which produces over a thousand films a year in more than a dozen regional languages, for an enraptured global audience of over a billion people — is merely a trumped-up imitation of the real thing.”