Melbourne's Immigration Museum Celebrating Bollywood Dreams

Australia is yet to become a major Bollywood market compared to UK and USA. However, a large number of people of South Asian origin exist in Australia. Needless to say that they are huge fans of Bollywood movies. So, it is nice to find that Melbourne's Immigration Museum is celebrating Bollywood Dreams for the children.

The Museum website wrote:

On show for the first and only time in Australia, this international photographic exhibition turns the camera on the world's largest film industry.

Including original photographs by New Yorker Jonathan Torgovnik and behind the scenes documentary footage, Bollywood Dreams explores the power of cinema in India as both entertainment and social phenomenon.

Many children are enjoying the exhibition. I guess that some of them are dreaming the Bollywood dreams.

The Australian wrote:

BOLLYWOOD came to Melbourne's Immigration Museum yesterday as children were encouraged to become film stars for the day by dressing up in costumes and learning some new dance moves.

Children were also given the opportunity to act out a scene and face the camera for the first time as film characters as part of the museum's Kids Fest: Experience Bollywood.

As well, the Jhanak Dance Company performed and conducted workshops in Bollywood dance - a combination of hip-hop, salsa, rhythm and blues and classical Indian dance movements from all parts of the country.

"It all comes together to form unique dance that is common only to Bollywood," one of Jhanak's four partners, Shyama Singharasa, said yesterday.

The only sad part is that when it comes to children movies, Bollywood literally sucks. Every year, more than 200 movies are released in Bollywood and not 2 of them are based on children.