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A Century of Bollywood
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92. 2009—Six decades after the global success of Awara (The Vagabond, 1951),
Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots experiences similar box-office success outside
of India, especially in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan, and China. The
film’s hero, Aamir Khan, commands an instant following across China,
where his subsequent releases only increase box-office records. It is
ranked as the twelfth “All-Time Favorite” film of Chinese audiences on the
popular review site Douban. In India, the film’s reformist message
towards inculcating a competition-free education culture inspires a legislation
towards an examination-free education system for upper primary
level in schools. 3 Idiots makes history by becoming the first film to enter
the 200-crore (2,000 million) rupee club of domestic box-office earners,
ending with an overall global lifetime take of 5,000-million rupees.
93. 2010—The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the
University of Vienna, Austria, hosts “Shah Rukh Khan and Global
“Superstar of the Millennium” Amitabh Bachchan on a promotional poster for
his 2011 film Bbuddah . . .Hoga Terra Baap.
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