Re:sound #33: The Bollywood Show

This hour: a tall, white New Zealander heads to Mumbai to try and land a role in one of the hundreds of Bollywood films the industry churns out each year.

2005 / TCF / WBEZ 91.5, USA


This hour: a tall, white New Zealander heads to Mumbai to try and land a role in one of the hundreds of Bollywood films the industry churns out each year.

Dream Factory Worker
by Simon Morton (Radio New Zealand, 2003)
India churns out over 800 films a year, around half of them from the Hindi film factory of Mumbai, universally known as "Bollywood." The films are renowned for their over the top, colorful escapism filled with musical interludes involving hundreds of extras. Radio New Zealand producer Simon Morton traveled to Mumbai and embarked on a personal mission to achieve celluloid eternity as one of those extras.

This episode of Re:sound was produced by Roman Mars.

produced by

Simon Morton

Simon Morton is a producer and presenter of the weekly consumer/science technology program This Way Up.

Roman Mars

Roman Mars (@romanmars) is the creator of 99% Invisible , a short radio show about design and architecture.


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