I think that you completely missed my point. I understand that India makes the most films. What I'm saying is that they should diversify into the American (or global) market and make another couple billion a year.

Animation is probably the logical place. It's not the quantity of films, but the quality.

Bollywood does makes some great movies, of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots

Here's what Hollywood makes:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2012/how-much-does-hol...

It looks like they get around $10 billion US and $25-$30 billion internationally.

So, in the big scheme of things, a billion dollars is less than the Avengers made at the box office.

This kind of reasoning would lead to silly suggestions like that Apple should invade Microsoft's market and create OSX for non-Apple

Companies and Industries often don't compete with other ones when there's a significant enough barrier to do so (or not to do so). There's a huge and rapidly growing market in India, why would Bollywood look elsewhere without increasing it's take of it's own market?

I posit that Hollywood better look to Bollywood for it's growth potential - the middle-class in India is growing, while the US middle class is in decline.

Hollywood is already looking overseas. They get most of their profits from foreign ticket sales. They are even changing the way films are made to get into the Chinese market, for example. In short, they are thinking global.

Anyway, if Bollywood doesn't want to think global, I'm ok with that. Someone else will seize the opportunity.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230421390...

From what i understand, Bollywood is catering ever more to their own population as opposed to the global population. There really isn't any global market for super-human cops is there now? But movies like those are on the high rise in India. Its because that's the thing the indian people love. And with one of the largest populations in the world, they feel that there's no point in catering to the global market at the cost of the money gained from indian viewers.

Btw, in other threads people are debating whether it's a good idea to spend money on space research, and here we are telling them to spend money in movies instead? What gives?

I originally wrote 2 paragraphs. If you read them both, I also discussed the upside of space research.