Mumbai: 5 essential indian facts, Dharavi, and Bollywood

1.) Kaun Banega Crorepati is a game show that is like 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' and is really popular in India but has not been seen all over the world on television yet.

2.) Mumbai- 5 Essential Indian Facts:
  • formally known as Bombay
  • the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra
  • virtually never sleeps
  • biggest metropolis of India
  • addresses over 15 million Mumbaikars, including the well-heeled industrialists, ravishing celebrities and eminent artists
3.) Dharavi:
  • Asia's biggest slum in the world
  • home to more than 1 million people
  • one unending stretch of narrow dirty lanes, open sewers and cramped huts
  • 18,000 per acre
  • house rents are among the highest in the world
4.) A shantytown is a slum settlement of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials.  As of 2005, one billion people live in shanty towns.

5.) Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film star in the early 1970's.  Bachchan trashed the movie Slumdog Millionaire by writing on his webite: "projects India as [a] Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots,"

6.) Bollywood:
  • Hindi language film industry based in Mumbai
  • incorrectly used towards the whole Indian cinema
  • largest film producers in India
7.) In American dollars, 250,000 rupees is 45.909 dollars.





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