Truemors
The fastest growing film and TV industry in the world is Asian. Bollywood is at the heart of this industry turning out film after film to be eagerly devoured by the huge Indian film going audience. Today we hear that Bollywood's major stars along with technical staff and writers - that's over 100,000 workers - have started an indefinite "non-cooperation" protest - effectively a strike.
Movie stars, including Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as dancers, writers and technicians heeded a call for an indefinite "non-cooperation" protest in Mumbai, where Bollywood, home to India's prolific movie industry, is located.
"All shoots are off. The producers have not stuck to the terms of the agreement they signed with us one-and-a-half years back," said Dinesh Chaturvedi, general secretary of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees, the umbrella union for Bollywood employees.
"Payments have been delayed by three months, six months, a year. And producers are hiring non-members to save costs. We are not happy to call for this non-cooperation, but we are helpless."
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