India through the film lens
It is not far fetched to believe that films reflect the 'mood' of the nation. In this post I attempt to analyse the Indian film landscape and break it down into bite sized pieces. To represent Indian films, I have used the Bollywood as the narrow definition. While this is unfair to thriving film industries in every state I have done so only for the convenience, and not out of disrespect. Bollywood also offers the additional benefit that Hindi films are consumed without subtitles in large parts of India where Hindi is not the primary language. To represent the 'mood' I have taken the top netting film of each year since 1940 (80 years). One can safely assume that the earnings of each film is representative of its acceptance across the country. There has been a stupendous growth in how much the top film each year makes. If one were to make an index of the earnings of the top grossing films with 100 as the value in 1940, the value in 2019 of such an hypothetical ...