An Indian reality/game show based on the UK game show Who Want to Be a Millionaire? It is hosted by Amitah Bachchan (see notes below). This show was hugely popular in India.
List five essential facts about Bombay (Mumbai)
- Capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra
- Most populous city in India, second populous in the world, with a population of 14 million people
- Seven Islands : Bombay Island, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Woril, and Old's Women's Island
- Commerial and entertainment capital of India
- Richest city in India and has the highest GDP of any city in South West or Central Asia
What is Dharavi?
- is a slum
- largest slum in the world
- Asia's largest slum
- It is home to more than one million people
- A city within a city, it is one unending strtch of narrow dirty lanes, open sewers and cramped huts
- exports goods (pottery and plastic) all around the world
- Rents can be as low as 185 rupess ($4) per month
- Dharavi has a large number of thriving small-scale industies
What is a shatytwon? How many people live in shanty worldwide?
- Shanty town - a slum settlement of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap material often sheets of metal or plastic
- Do not have proper sanitation, electircity, or telephone service
- As of 2005, one billion people, one-sixth of the worlds population, live in shanty towns
- first appeared during the laq in reemployment after world war 1, rising on dump heaps or wastelands within or at the edges of large industral cities. Also in the Great Depression. "The shanties were constructed and occupied by single men who had fitted into an economy of abundance as transient workers. Forced to stay in one place, they built crude homes of any free material available, such as boxes, waste lumber, and tin cans. Some occupied abandoned boilers, boxcars, and caves. They continued to take odd jobs when they could be found, living on the scant wages with the extra aid of social agencies."
- Amitah Bachchan is an Indian huge flim actor and producer
- Gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema
- One of the most prominent firgures in the history of Indian cinema
- Actor, producer, singer, tv presenter
- The host of Slumdog Millionarie, he was the answer to the first question
- He played the genie in Aldain (:
Bollywood is a popular name for the flim industry in India. It combines the name of Hollywood, the capital of cinema in the US and a defacto symbol for movies worldwide, and bombay, the older name for the city of Mumbai, where the Indian flim industry is based.
Bollywood, formally referred to as Hindi cinema, is popularly used for the Hindi-language flim industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is inly part of the total Indian flim industry, which includes sereval regional flim industries sorted by language. Bollywood is the largest flim producer in India and one of the largest centers of flim production in the world.
How much is 250,000 rupees (or any amount of rupees) in American dollars? (Hint: find a currency converter)
250,000 Nepalese Rupees are converted to 3,467 in US dollars.
Resources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/dharavi_slum/html/dharavi_slum_intro.stm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7RNSN_en&ei=tpr2TJb0Csb_lgfCsMnFBQ&sa=X&oi=currency_onebox&ct=currency_onebox_convert&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q6wgwAA&btnFOB=Convert&q=250000+NPR+to+USD
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bollywood.htm
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