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Akshay Kumar donates 50 lakh for Maharashtra's water crisis.


The ongoing water crisis in Maharashtra has surely gotten the attention of social figures across the country with tweets and awareness pleas flowing in on a daily basis. While most of our stars have tried to help the drought stricken state, few of them don't like to brag or let anyone know about their move towards the cause.


What’s just come to our notice is that Akshay Kumar recently donated 50 lakh for the Maharashtra government’s flagship Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyaan (local water conservation scheme). The scheme involves constructing ponds on farms for water harvesting, and making villages drought-proof. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis even thanked the superstar for his contribution.

 

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Is Bollywood an Oligopoly because of Salman, SRK, Akshay, Aamir, and Hrithik?


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We have often heard and read that Bollywood is currently dominated by the six major superstars: Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan, and Ajay Devgn.

While this has been happening for the past 15 years, we wonder if Bollywood is a perfect example of an economy operating under oligopoly.

What is Oligopoly?

• An oligopoly is a market structure which is dominated by only a few players. When a market is shared between a few firms, it is said to be highly concentrated. Although only a few producers/sellers dominate the market, it is possible that many small firms also operate in the market.

Even in Bollywood's case, this is true. Our industry is dominated by the six major stars; however, there are many other comparatively smaller ones present in the industry who aspire to be at the top.



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Features of oligopoly market:

1. One of the major features of oligopolies is that they are price setters and not price makers.

This holds true in Bollywood as well. Isn't it is a common practice adapted by the multiplex and single screen owners to hike the ticket rates when a superstar film releases?

2. In an oligopoly, every firm is influenced by the behaviour of other firms.

A recent example will justify this situation. Shah Rukh Khan and Excel Entertainment announced that their film, Raees will release in Eid 2016. However, a few weeks later, Yash Raj Films too announced that Salman Khan's Sultan will release on the same date. Following the announcement, to avoid competition on the same day, SRK and his team decided to postpone the film.

3. Due to severe competition and interdependence of firms, various sales promotion techniques are used.

We all are aware that Bollywood stars prefer to go overboard with movie promotions by making an appearance at almost all television shows. It seems like the urge to be fresh in public memory thus having a better recall value is one of the major reasons for the same.



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4. Demand cannot be determined with certainty.

Despite all the promotions and other attempts to get audiences to the theatre, one cannot assure about the kind of reception the film will receive from the audience. Box-Office collections are another thing which cannot be determined with certainty.

5. Oligopoly is identified using concentrated ratios which measure the proportion of total market share controlled by a given number of firms.

In 2015, the total collections of Bollywood stood close to Rs 3200 crore from over 180 films out of which Rs 1200 crore were contributed by eight films that starred Salman Khan (Rs 530 crore), Akshay Kumar (Rs 340 crore), Shah Rukh Khan (Rs 140 crore), and Ajay Devgn (70 crore).

PS: Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan did not have any release in 2015.

Isn't Bollywood fulfilling all the criterion to be an oligopoly?

 

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Model Aisha Sharma bags role opposite Akshay Kumar in 'Namaste England'

UPALA KBR | Wed, 18 May 2016-07:10am , Mumbai , dna
Calendar girl to debut opposite Akshay Kumar in Vipul Shah’s next. Namaste, Aisha!

Actress Neha Sharma’s sister, model Aisha won’t be debuting in Sajid Nadiadwala’s Judwaa 2, directed by David Dhawan, opposite Varun Dhawan anymore. Instead, Aisha will now be seen making her debut in Vipul Shah’s Namaste England, which also stars Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha.

Says a source, “Sonakshi won’t be the only female lead opposite Akshay inNE. While she plays his wife, Aisha plays his love interest. She is very hot on the modelling circuit and her pairing with Akshay is a fresh one whereas, Sonakshi has been paired with the actor five times already.”

Adds the source, “Akshay has introduced many young girls to B-Town before this. He has an eye for fresh talent. Many an actress, including Taapsee Pannu and Tamannaah Bhatia, resurrected their B-Town careers because of him. They had sunk into oblivion here and were doing South movies till he gave them a break again in his films.”

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Aisha was to debut in Judwaa 2 opposite Varun, but there were some issues between the director David Dhawan and her management agency.

NE in August

Vipul plans to shoot the film in mid-August in England and later Mumbai and Punjab. The source adds, “He wants to first shoot in England because he wants to capture the beginning of winter.” And no, it’s not a sequel to Namastey London.”

Calendar girls turned actresses

Katrina Kaif

Deepika Padukone

Esha Gupta

Lisa Haydon

Nargis Fakhri

Yana Gupta

AKSHAY'S GIRLS

Trisha Krishnan in Priyadarshan’s Khatta Meetha (2015)

After debuting in Chand Sa Roshan Chehra (2005), which did poorly, Tamannaah Bhatia acted in several films in the South before Akshay gave her a break in Sajid-Farhad’s Entertainment (2014)

Taapsee Pannu had debuted in Chashme Baddoor (2013) and then did Neeraj Pandey’s Baby (2015) with Akshay

Madhurima Tuli in Baby (2015)

Nimrat Kaur in Raja Krishna Menon’s Airlift (2016)

 

Bucky ‏@paramaanandam

#Housefull3 Nice movie Akshay kumar and Jacqueline were fabulous Abhishek was wasted yet again Pakka time pass flick My rating 3.5/5 Comedy scenes were highlight Particularly tht beach comedy scene Rofl #Housefull3

 

Taran Adarsh ‏@taran_adarsh

Comedy is serious business and #Housefull3 lives up to the humongous hype + enormous expectations attached to the franchise... #HF3 Entertainment is the lifeline of #Housefull series. Sajid-Farhad ensure #HF3 stays faithful to genre. Laughs, gags, punches - it's a riot... Akshay, Riteish, Abhishek take the comic quotient notches above the ordinary. Comic timing . Trio is the lifeline of #Housefull3... #HF3 Jacqueline stands out amongst the leading ladies, while Jackie Shroff, Boman Irani and Chunky Pandey are pitch perfect... #Housefull3 #HF3 For those who relish zany, madcap entertainers, with loads of laughter + dollops of entertainment, #Housefull3 is a treat. #HF3

 

Shiva Satyam ‏@AsliShiva

#Housefull3 is Complete Entertainer film, which would be watched by each & every section of audience & they will enjoy it a lot. All the actors of #Housefull3 have done great performance @akshaykumar @Asli_Jacqueline @Riteishd @juniorbachchan @HaydonLisa @NargisFakhri. Overall #Housefull3 has all the elements to get success at the box office.Sajid Farhad have done well job.Bollywoodhungama Ratings is 3.5* #Housefull3 is best comedy film in recent year, All set to take bumper opening. Masses as well as classes go gaga over it.

 

Visakh