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Episode one

Anita journeys to Bombay – the home of Bollywood - where the stars tower over the city on enormous murals. She discovers but how important the movies are and meets some of Bollywood's biggest stars.

The film industry employs more than a quarter of a one thousand thousand people in India and Anita begins her journey in Mumbai – the home of Bollywood - where the stars tower over the city on enormous murals. She discovers just how important the movies are to everyday people at ane of the oldest cinemas in Bombay where she quickly finds herself in the center of a screaming mob as the stars of that night'due south pic brand a surprise advent.

She's invited onto the fix of a film shooting in downtown Bombay where she meets one of Bollywood'south biggest stars, Anil Kapoor, who explains the enduring appeal of these films and gives her a rare glimpse into how the famous trip the light fantastic toe numbers are shot with almost no rehearsals in advance. Inspired to requite information technology a go herself, Anita joins a leading choreographer who explains the ancient traditions at the heart of modern Bollywood trip the light fantastic numbers before they all head to the roof of a high-rise so Anita tin can star in a Bollywood "Item Number" herself.

Anita then travels to the countryside of Lucknow where a big action film is being shot to come across action hero Ajay Devgan who shows her the secrets they use to create the impressive fight scenes. So she'south invited into the junk-strewn recording studio of Bollywood'southward leading Foley artists to learn the surprising tricks behind creating the audio effects for India's biggest activeness films.

In the showroom of India's leading way designer, Manish Malhotra, Anita discovers how important the costumes are to Bollywood before racing beyond town to visit the hundreds of men working in his factories – where the nigh elaborate outfits tin accept half dozen months and involve more than a 1000000 hand stiches. This is an example of the extraordinary wealth dissever in India; the boilerplate bacon for tailors across India is less than £1500 a year but the outfits they make can be worth equally much as £27,000 and the Bollywood stars that wear them tin earn tens of millions of pounds.

At a magazine cover shoot, Anita meets superstar Sidharth Malhotra to empathize just how fanatical Indians are about their pic stars. Finally, she flies to Jodhpur where she's roped into helping the wardrobe department dress a cast of hundreds for an ballsy battle scene at an ancient fort, as the casting team scramble to find enough foreign extras merely hours before filming begins.

Concluding on

Clips

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the get-go of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Ajay-Atul, Udit Narayan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra

    Gun Gun Guna (From "Agneepath")

  • Benny Dayal

    The Disco Song

Credits

Presenter Anita Rani
Special thanks Bhansali Productions
Special thanks Essel Vision Productions
Special thanks Farhath Hussain
Special thanks Think Events
Special thanks Kairos Kontent Studios
Special thanks Kriarj Entertainment
Special thanks Panorama Studios
Special thanks Romp Pictures
Special thanks Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Re-recording mixer Nas Parkash
Colourist Chris Batham
On-line editing Ronnie Newman
Sound Recordist Sudipto Mukhopadhyay
Product Coordinator Laura Hodgson
Line Producer James Mudie
Editor Tony Graynoth
Producer Sarah Muhsen
Executive Producer Dominique Walker
Series Producer Chris Parkin
Managing director Chris Parkin
Production Company Raw Television set

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