Evolution of Bollywood

RealityDreams, hopes and aspirationsMoralityCultural influencesMaterialistic pursuitsMarket forces and audience (both audience

taken in consideration and ones taken almost for granted).

Social interactions and conflicts

What do the changes in movies reflect?

How would we study?

What would we study?

Actors’ appearancesFairness; contrast hero and villain. Use of xenophobia

to draw contrastFaceMusculature Skin exposure

Love scenesKind of movies: variation in plotsEconomic standing of actorsLead actor’s material pursuitsInnuendos, cursesSize and dynamics of familySociety pressure (Log kya kahenge…)Music

Establish the kinds of parameters for quantitation. Start date: 10th June. End date 18th June for this section.

June 19th group discussion on parameters and if we should include some other local cinema industries from world or Indian regions.

June 20th to June June 24th practice run of quantification of parameters from you tube videos.

June 25th group meeting to decide on final list and method of quantitation of parameters.

June 25th to August 25th quantitation of all parameters by splitting each quantitation in 2 teams for double blind cross validation. Reporting of parameters

Time series and statistical analysis by either the same team (willing to learn statistical details and nuances of time series analysis) or by time series group, followed by visualization of data. August 25th to Sep 15th.

Review and

revisions

October

onwards.

Paper writing Sep 15th to Sep 30th