廃れるヒンディー語映画

ボリウッドの生産するヒンディー語映画は海外インド人向けに巨額制作費を掛けた巨編を作るなか、インド自身においては斜陽の傾向にあり、それに代わってビハール州やウッタルプラデシュ州で使われるボジプリ語Bhojpuriを使ったボジプリ映画が人気を集め、稼いだ金でボリウッドの有名俳優アミタブ・バッチャンを起用できるまでになっている。

Hindi movies are on the way out. With is focus on big budget ("multi crore") spectaculars aimed at the transnational Indian audience (NRIs), Bollywood seems to have lost its way with viewers in India's heartland. They have turned to films produced in the Bhojpuri language, which is related to Hindi, but retains is own distinctive characteristics.[...]
With an audience of over two hundred million speakers in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Bhojpuri films are able to earn enough money to lure some of the top Bollywood stars, including the "Big B" himself, Amitabh Bachchan. While the BBC emphasizes the emphasis on "marriage and family," my friend from Bihar was telling me that there might be a more radical reason for the popularity of these films, as they express the dissatisfaction of rural Indians..

http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2007/01/25/bhojpuri/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4512812.stm