宝莱坞也被称作是“印地语(Hindi)的影院”，其实乌尔都语(Urdu)诗歌在这里也相当常见，同时英语的对白和歌曲所占的成分也正在逐年增加。不少影片中的对白中都有英语单词短语，甚至整个句子。一些电影还被制成两种或三种语言的版本
Barbara Mori and Hrithik Roshan in a scene from 'Kites' India's popular film industry, known as Bollywood, is trying its hand at producing films which will appeal to a global audience. But the popular Mumbai-based movie industry's efforts to break into the international market have made an uncertai…