  With an outreach in more than 90 countries, a market share of 2.1 billion
dollars and a target audience base of at least 1.2 billion people, Bollywood,
aka the Mumbai film industry, is a formidable entertainment force. While the
number of lives Bollywood can potentially touch is massive, no comprehensive
NLP study on the evolution of social and gender biases in Bollywood dialogues
exists. Via a substantial corpus of movie dialogues spanning a time horizon of
70 years, we seek to understand the portrayal of women, in a broader context
studying subtle social signals, and analyze the evolving trends in geographic
and religious representation in India. Our argument is simple -- popular movie
content reflects social norms and beliefs in some form or shape. In this
project, we propose to analyze such trends over 70 years of Bollywood movies
contrasting them with their Hollywood counterpart and critically acclaimed
world movies.
