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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Bollywood mourns attacks, seeks to draw moviegoers By MIN LEE,AP Entertainment Writer AP - 2 hours 11 minutes ago MUMBAI, India - With Mumbai still mourning its recent terror attacks, Bollywood faces a balancing act of showing solidarity with the residents of India's entertainment heartland _ while gently nudging locals back into movie theaters to boost an industry already hurt by the global economic downturn. The biggest stars in the world's biggest film industry quickly condemned the shootings in what one Indian TV station dubbed the "Star War on Terror." Then they got back to work _ making and promoting movies. Heartthrob Shah Rukh Khan, known as "King Khan" for his long string of box office successes, told The Associated Press that he wasn't sure whether he should promote his upcoming release. "I didn't feel like saying 'Go watch a film' when people had died" the actor said in a recent interview. But, he added, he also felt he had something to offer in tough times. "I can't tell people it will get you out of your sadness, but I can assure you that the two hours and 20 minutes is going to be great fun," he said. Part of his reaction, though, probably resulted from economics. Bollywood already was facing tough times before the attacks, bogged down by global economic woes _ and the attacks only threatened to make the situation worse. Harsha Vardhan, vice president for marketing at INOX Leisure Ltd., which runs two theaters in Mumbai, said it was too early to know the long-term impact of the attacks. A key barometer for moviegoing sentiment will come Friday with the release of Khan's new comedy, "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi," or "Match Made in Heaven," the first major Bollywood release since the attacks. The movie features Khan as a small-town man who transforms himself into a hip-swiveling heartbreaker to win a dance competition. "I think that really will be the accurate test of whether consumers are really shying away from film-going," Vardhan said. Mumbai movie theaters have reported disappointing attendance in recent days _ though many here argue that's because of a dearth of blockbusters _ and it's still not clear how much is because of the attacks. Fame India Ltd. recorded an occupancy of 30 percent at its eight multiplexes in Mumbai last week, said Chief Operating Officer Rishi Negi. But he blamed that on the shortage of big-name movies. Bollywood, based in this sprawling city also called Bombay, produces more than 200 Hindi-language films every year. The entire Indian movie industry _ of which Bollywood is the biggest player _ earned revenues of 96 billion Indian rupees ($2 billion) in 2007, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers India. But if it's a huge industry _ churning out endless song-and-dance extravaganzas on acres of Mumbai filmmaking sets _ the money involved is small compared to Hollywood, where total U.S. domestic box office receipts were $9.63 billion in 2007, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. And it's been suffering. The last quarter of 2008 had already seen a 25 percent to 30 percent drop in box office revenues from the previous quarter, said Taran Adarsh, editor of the Bollywood trade publication Trade Guide. "The producers aren't announcing fresh projects any more ... Even the studios have adopted a wait-and-see stance," Adarsh said in his column on the Web site Bollywood Hungama. Now, many here worry the attacks may make an already tough economic situation worse. On Tuesday evening, only a smattering of people _ three or four at a time _ were lining up for tickets in the lobby of Metro Cinema, a 70-year-old art deco theater originally built for the Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and now run by India's Adlabs Films Ltd. Some of the gunmen fired at crowds standing across from the Metro during the attacks. Ticket holders were frisked by security guards and walked through a metal detector _ already a fixture at Indian cinemas before the attacks. But movie-goers said they weren't too worried about security. In many ways this is a city accustomed to terror, whether the July 2006 train bombings that killed 187 people or the serial blasts of 1993. Executive Payal Shah, 25, went to the movies two days after the attacks ended. The theater, she said, was more than half empty. "It all depends on luck. If it's (an attack) going to happen, it could happen right now, right here also," said Shah, who bought a ticket for the Hindi film "Maharathi." In a confidence boost for the industry, major Hollywood studios say they remain committed to their investments in India _ and announced several deals after the attacks. "We are definitely in here for the long haul," Twentieth Century Fox International Vice President for Asia Pacific Sunder Kimatrai said. Fox and Asian satellite broadcaster STAR _ both units of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. _ recently set up a joint venture specializing in local Asian productions, starting in India. The Walt Disney Co., which has partnered with Yash Raj Films to make computer-animated movies, announced Tuesday another Bollywood studio, UTV Motion Pictures, will become the exclusive distributor for Disney movies in India. Warner Bros. said Monday it will work with India's People Tree Films on three movies. ___ Associated Press writer Ramola Talwar Badam contributed to this report. 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Thursday, 11 December 2008 - Bollywood mourns attacks, seeks to draw moviegoers