Bombay hosts one of the world's largest film industries, which is popularly known as Bollywood.
Indian cinema plays an essential part in the identity of the South Asian diaspora.
The marvellous world of Bollywood also attracts organised crime members, and indeed some films have been financed by the moguls of Bombay's underworld, who may be responsible for facilitating the meteoric rise of certain starlets. What we are about to see is just how much fantasy and illusion is linked to the world of Indian cinema, maybe more than in any other country world-wide. The hundreds of popular Hindi films belched out of the numerous Bombay studios provide the purest form of distraction for the hundreds and thousands of Indian viewers who watch them each year. These typically bollywoodian films enable viewers to escape the difficulties of everyday life, especially for the sub-continent dwellers. These immensely popular films with their predictable plots, which made specifically for the masses, transporting their aiudience into an illusory universe.