Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Modern Bollywood



Late 1960s saw a new era of movies. Romantic and action movies introduced for the first time some very great actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Hema Malini etc. 1970s saw the rise of commercial cinema with Amitabh Bachcha's Sholay and Deewar. The most internationally-acclaimed Hindi film of the 1980s was Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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