England 1986

Chapter 328 Bollywood Experience

In the evening, bodyguards were sent to drive Aishwarya Rai back to her residence in Mumbai, and Alan returned to the hotel.

Here, I have to wash myself even in the shower, which is a bit inconvenient, but when I go out, the conditions are a little rough, and I can bear it, let's make do with it.

Mumbai is known as the Shanghai of India. Allen heard from the locals that a place like Shanghai in Huaguo, given 50 years of development, Shanghai will not be able to surpass Mumbai.

For this statement, it not only reflects the self-confidence of Mumbai people, but also reflects the ignorance of Mumbai people.

Allen smiled, not even having the desire to complain, Indians are sometimes inexplicably confident, so that outsiders think they are a little abnormal.
Just like it is now.

Picking up Aishwarya Rai early in the morning, the two were going to visit Bollywood. When the convoy arrived at the entrance of Bollywood, Allen's car was stopped!

The security personnel said that they did not have an invitation letter, and they did not shoot a movie here, so they were not allowed to go in and visit.

It's obviously a wilderness, and you have to ask for an invitation letter to go in?

If you don't go in through the gate, do you want Master Allen's convoy to go on the dirt road next to it?
Aishwarya Rai looked at Allen embarrassedly, and opened his mouth to explain.

"Stop talking, it's okay, we don't need an invitation letter."

Allen squinted and patted the headrest of the co-pilot: "Go and let them know whose car can be stopped and whose car cannot be stopped."

"Good sir!"

The bodyguard sitting on the co-pilot took out a small submachine gun from under the car seat, clicked, pulled the bolt, checked it, then took the gun, opened the car door like this, and swaggered down "show the invitation letter ".

If the Indian security guards on the opposite side are not afraid of death, let them see and see what a firepower invitation is!
Aishwarya Rai leaned against the car window, staring blankly at the bodyguard who got out of the car, raised the submachine gun with one hand, and aimed at the sky, and fired a few shots first. The security guard from India, His face turned pale with fright.

The bodyguard held the Indian security guard by the back collar like a chicken cub, put the muzzle of the gun into his mouth, lowered his head and said a few words, inside the concierge A few more trembling Indians came out and hurriedly opened the door.

"It seems that these people are assholes. It's impossible to talk to them well. You need to use other methods, and I'm very good at this method."

Allen pointed to the big iron gate that was opened, and Bollywood was just around the corner.

Indians are actually very similar to Koreans in some ways.

They're all the same bitches, they're all the softies, they're all the same, they always need to look at people to act.

They are always being dogs to others without knowing it, thinking that others need them, not that they are being dogs to others.

Like the Koreans, they also like to steal things, and they are inexplicably confident in their own culture.

In recent times, Indians and Koreans have become more similar. They also like to change the names of cities to get rid of some of their previous inherent impressions, for example, the colors left on them by colonists or masters.

The Koreans changed the name of an iconic city like Seoul to Seoul. They thought that by changing the name, they would have a national history of tens of thousands of years.

And the Indians also want to change their name. After all, Mumbai is not called Mumbai now, and Mumbai is still called by the name given to them by the British back then.

But Bollywood is more straightforward. Indians directly stole their names from Hollywood, changed their initials, and transformed themselves into Bollywood, simple and rude.

Bollywood is known as the center of Indian movies, and it is also one of the business cards of Mumbai. However, after listening to Aishwarya Rai's introduction, Allen felt that this place was not suitable for his investment.

In some respects, it is very similar to Xiangjiang.

Bollywood film production is very special, it is a family system, not a company system.

Although they also have companies, these companies are empty shells for external use.

Internally, Bollywood is actually controlled by eight major families, each of which has one or several studios responsible for filming, and the source of funds
Banks in India are not allowed to lend money to the film industry!

This is illegal, so at present, most of the films in India are wholly-owned or financed. As for where did the money come from?
Each of the eight major families has one or several local Indian gang partnerships behind them. They take black money from them, and then launder the money through the film industry, and finally return it to those gangs.

It is said that sometimes these gangs will fight because of the amount of investment and the uneven distribution of spoils.

"How do you know such details?"

Allen couldn't believe that the little girl sitting next to him could understand this kind of inside story.

"What's the matter? These are all public information. As long as you want to enter Bollywood, who doesn't know what's going on here? The officials don't care, because they can make money and pay taxes, and ordinary people don't dare to care. They can avoid a lot of trouble by voluntarily saying that they have ties to the so-and-so gang.”

Aishwarya Rai said with some disdain, it seemed that she had a very bad impression of Bollywood.

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Are the Indians playing so aboveboard?
Allen didn't expect that the game here would be so unrestrained. This is because he learned the routines of Daying, but he didn't learn the essence.

You are laundering money, at least you have to act. Now that you are doing it aboveboard, when a politician with a tougher wrist comes someday, isn’t this a ready-made gift package of experience?

This kind of gameplay, in Allen's view, is tantamount to committing suicide.

But right now they're doing fine, which is fucked up.

It may be that the national conditions are different. This kind of gameplay, as long as Indians in any other country, except Africa, dare to play like this, it is a dead end, and the technique is too rough.

Walking all the way along the main road, there are two rows of low-rise office buildings on both sides of the road.

Here are the office buildings of some brokerage companies.

Allen looked out from the car, and there were rows of Indian women sitting inside.

How to describe it?
If there is another small pink lamp at the door, and the clothes are cooler, it will feel right!

Movies throughout India, regardless of genre, are collectively called musicals.

Musicals are in great demand for ensemble performances, especially large-scale dance ensemble performances, which gives opportunities to these small brokerage companies.

Each of their brokerage companies has at least dozens or hundreds of extra performers signed.

Most of these ensemble performers are women.

That is, the bottom female model and actress in Bollywood.

If these people are spotted by a certain director or actor one day, they will be able to soar into the sky, but this day is only limited to Mumbai.

In normal times, they occasionally earn some extra money, earning some quick money to support their lives.

This is also the reason why the outside blocked this place. When ordinary people enter here, their eyes will be dazzled just by seeing this group of Yingying and Yanyan.

Women who dress conservatively outside are not conservative at all here. Although Allen still thinks their clothes are conservative, but for Indians, they are white and not conservative anymore. If they are cooler, It's even more dangerous.

Originally, he planned to take a good look at Bollywood, but after walking around and listening to Aishwarya Rai's introduction along the way, Allen has lost interest in Bollywood.

"Bollywood movies used to be very popular in the Soviet Union. They import a lot of them every year. We can also provide them with Russian dubbing and subtitles. The Middle East is also very popular, but it may not be possible this year."

Aishwarya Rai is still a little proud when talking about Bollywood movies. She talked about the glorious history of Bollywood movies in front of Allen, and they are considered best-selling at home and abroad.
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Allen waved his hand a little tiredly, and didn't plan to continue watching, so let's go to Bangalore to have a look, it's too rubbish here.

Due to the large area, Bollywood is built in the suburbs, and the further you go, the more remote the place is, and there are slums next to it.

It is a slum area, not a civilian area.

These people living in dilapidated shacks are the people who impressed Allen the most in India in the true sense. They are very tanned and thin.

From a distance, children looked like wild dogs rummaging through rubbish dumps. They saw a few groups of black things rummaging through those rubbish dumps.

There were some poor people wandering on the side of the road. Some people looked at the convoy of Rolls-Royces with dull eyes. They might have never seen a Rolls-Royce in their life, and they only thought that the convoy was very imposing.

Allen could even see the tense look on their faces. They wanted to escape, but their bodies were so tense that they were too frightened to move, and they just stood on the side of the road blankly.

A bodyguard in the car in front pressed down on the window and held up a gun to scare these people. Only then did these "obtrusive" poor people recover their senses and stumble back when they saw the group of foreigners with guns.

Aishwarya Rai watched this scene without any discomfort in her eyes. She was a little naive, but she also looked down on these poor people from the bottom of her heart. These people are untouchables who don't even deserve their surnames.

Everyone knows that India has a four-level caste system, and these people are the fifth class, untouchables who are not even worthy of being recorded-Dalits!
The convoy whizzed by, and the smoke and dust fell on their dark skins, like a wild dog digging up garbage, covered in smoke and dust, no one cared about them, and no one ever cared about them, and the surroundings returned to calm.

Take Aishwarya Rai to buy a whole set of jewelry in the shopping streets of Mumbai, and there is nothing left to shop.

For others, Mumbai is most famous for its Victorian-style buildings, which are full of British colonial features. Ordinary people may still be interested in taking a look when they come here.

But Allen has no such interest, this thing is everywhere in Great Britain.

The Victorian architecture is the architectural style of his new castle, with Gothic spires and domes. Except for a slight difference in the architectural form, the common thing is the belief in splendor!
In foreign countries, there are luxury cars, mansions, beautiful women, famous watches and so on to show their strength.

The house style of the Victorian era, whether it is a church or a castle, likes to be resplendent, and this is how the houses are pasted with gold and gems.

People in some places may look at this kind of building from the current perspective, and feel a bit like nouveau riche.

But if you really want them to buy it, they can't afford it.

The Big Ben, the suspension bridge, and the Houses of Parliament in London are representatives of Gothic architecture in the Victorian era. The Big Ben is also pasted with gold and precious stones. Is it soiled?

Isn't this the hometown of many people's dreams?

Allen just disliked that it would be too expensive to post gold now, and his new castle turned into a diamond post instead.

The design of the castle shape is still in accordance with the popular design of the Victorian era.

Through the house, when friends come to the house to show their financial resources and strength, this cannot be low-key and humble like some places.

Your family is not doing well, how can people believe in your strength?

By mouth?
And now let him visit these old Victorian buildings in Mumbai, what's so good about this thing?

Like you who live by the sea and go to the great inland Northwest city for some seafood.

Instead of eating at your doorstep, you go to inland cities to eat.

Are you free?
From Mumbai to Bangalore.

If you drive, it will take about twelve or three hours. This is still in the case of good road conditions. Alan, who has no confidence in India's infrastructure, is very persuasive and does not choose to take a car.

And if you take the train, it will take about 24 hours.

As for why taking the train is slower than driving, don’t ask
The question is that India has special national conditions. This is not a train, but a tin can!

Whoever's train is full of people can't drive fast.

In the end, Allen had no choice but to fly to Bangalore, which was fast and took less than two hours.

Apart from being a little bit dangerous, there is nothing wrong with it.

Only Air India can fly the flight from Mumbai to Bangalore. Foreign aircraft do not fly this route, and the company responsible for flying this route by Air India is an airline under the Tata Group.

The relationship is very complicated, but Allen can only choose to believe that the founder of the Tata Group is extremely hostile to Great Britain.

Fortunately
Although the plane was a bit old, it finally landed safely at Bangalore International Airport.

Like their planes, this airport is a bit broken, but it seems to be expanding recently
It is about thirty to forty kilometers from Bangalore International Airport to downtown Bangalore, which is not too far. In Allen's opinion, the environment here is better than Mumbai.

Because Mumbai is a port city with a large number of people and a large number of immigrants, it is relatively dirty, while Bangalore has been planned as a heavy industry center since India's independence. It can be regarded as an industrial city, and there are several Indian military enterprises in the surrounding area.

In proportion to the population, workers make up the vast majority.

Although this is not a good description, but there are many workers in a city, and it is better than Mumbai where people of various classes live together and look more organized.

And this time Allen's destination was not to see the scenery first, but to send someone to inquire about the news after arriving in Bangalore.

On the road, while chatting with Aishwarya Rai, Allen just heard by accident that a big company came to Bangalore last year --- IBM.

The Indian government also established a new supporting industrial park and supporting facilities here last year to serve the IT industry.

Moreover, the construction of supporting facilities has also begun. Aishwarya Rai didn't quite understand, and only said what kind of microwave communication station to be built.

PS: Don’t forget history, today is the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, let’s commemorate it.

(End of this chapter)