Determinants of the spatial diffusion of Bollywood cinema

No.	Country	Distance of largest urban centre from Mumbai (km)	Class	Size of the Indian diaspora	Class	Number of Bollywood movies distributed 1970–2010
1.	Argentina	14,950	VI	1,600	V	1
2.	Armenia	3,585	I	200	VI	1
3.	Australia	10,170	VI	190,000	II	48
4.	Austria	5,980	IV	12,000	III	8
5.	Bahrain	2,420	I	130,000	II	7
6.	Barbados	13,720	VI	2,200	IV	1
7.	Belarus	5,460	III	100	VI	1
8.	Belgium	6,880	V	7,000	IV	11
9.	Brazil	13,790	VI	1,900	IV	5
10.	Canada	12,500	VI	851,000	I	55
11.	Chile	16,090	VI	650	V	1
12.	China	4,750	II	300	VI	1
13.	Columbia	15,550	VI	100	VI	1
14.	Czech Republic	6,165	IV	400	V	3
15.	Denmark	6,430	IV	2,200	IV	1
16.	Egypt	4,360	II	1,400	V	4
18.	Estonia	5,900	III	100	VI	2
19.	Fiji	12,250	VI	337,000	I	5
20.	Finland	5,930	IV	1,200	V	2
21.	France	7,020	V	65,000	II	22
22.	Germany	6,690	IV	35,000	III	24
23.	Ghana	8,040	V	3,800	IV	1
24.	Great Britain	7,200	V	1,200,000	I	439
25.	Greece	5,180	III	7,000	IV	4
26.	Hong Kong	4,300	II	50,500	II	4
27.	Hungary	5,770	III	1,000	V	3
28.	Indonesia	4,660	II	55,000	II	8
29.	Iran	2,800	I	800	V	1
30.	Ireland	7,610	V	1,600	V	99
31.	Island	8,340	V	100	VI	1
32.	Israel	4,060	II	45,300	III	6
33.	Italy	6,180	IV	71,500	II	8
34.	Japan	6,732	V	10,000	IV	13
35.	Kazakhstan	3,570	I	1,100	V	3
36.	Kenya	4,570	II	102,500	II	3
37.	Kuwait	2,810	I	295,000	I	192
38.	Kyrgyzstan	2,650	I	100	VI	1
39.	Latvia	5,800	III	600	V	1
40.	Lebanon	4,040	II	11,000	III	2
41.	Malaysia	3,600	II	1,665,000	I	15
42.	Mauritius	4,680	II	716,000	I	4
43.	Mexico	15,670	VI	400	V
44.	Morocco	8,000	V	350	VI	3
45.	Nepal	1,590	I	540,000	I	2
46.	New Zealand	12,380	VI	55,000	II	12
47.	Nigeria	7,630	V	25,000	III	1
48.	Norway	6,650	IV	5,600	IV	4
49.	Oman	1,580	I	312,000	I	3
50.	Pakistan	1,630	I	2,160,000	I	27
51.	Panama	15,820	VI	2,200	IV	1
52.	Peru	16,720	VI	100	VI	3
53.	Philippines	5,135	III	38,000	III	5
54.	Poland	5,790	III	800	V	11
55.	Portugal	8,030	V	70,000	II	6
56.	Qatar	2,300	I	131,000	II	2
57.	Russia/Union Soviet	5,030	III	16,000	III	8
58.	Singapore	3,900	II	50,000	II	31
59.	Slovakia	5,930	IV	100	VI	1
60.	Slovenia	6,080	IV	100	VI	2
61.	South Africa	8,250	V	1,000,000	I	21
62.	South Korea	5,600	III	2,700	IV	7
63.	Spain	7,540	V	29,000	III	8
64.	Sri Lanka	1,550	I	30,000	III	1
65.	Sudan	4,300	II	1,500	V	1
66.	Sweden	6,240	IV	11,000	III	7
67.	Switzerland	6,550	IV	13,500	III	13
68.	Syria	3,975	II	1,800	IV	1
69.	Taiwan	5,040	III	1,800	IV	4
70.	Tanzania	4,950	III	90,000	II	3
71.	Thailand	3,000	I	85,000	II	3
72.	Netherlands The	6,860	V	217,000	I	68
73.	Tunisia	6,360	IV	100	VI	1
74.	Turkey	4,815	III	300	VI	6
75.	United Emirates Arab	2,000	I	950,000	I	16
76.	USA	12,550	VI	1,679,000	I	186
77.	Zimbabwe	6,150	IV	16,700	III	1

Number of countries with their 1st Bollywood premiere in 1970–2010

Class	Class range (km)	1970–79	1980–89	1990–99	2000–10
I	below 3,600	1	2	0	10
II	3,601–4,800	0	3	1	9
III	4,801–5,900	3	1	2	7
IV	5,901–6,700	1	3	3	6
V	6,701–10,000	2	5	2	4
VI	over 10,000	3	1	3	6

Number of Bollywood movies in countries classified by size of Indian diaspora

Class	I	II	III	IV	V	VI
Movies – total	1,033	157	84	53	135	24
Movies – average	79	12	7	4	10	2

Number of countries with 1st Bollywood premiere in 1970–2010

Class	Class range (pop.)	1970–1979	1980–1989	1990–1999	2000–2010
I	over 200,000	3	1	2	7
II	50,000–200,000	1	4	3	5
III	11,000–49,999	2	2	2	6
IV	1,800–10,999	0	3	1	8
V	400–1,799	2	2	2	7
VI	below 400	2	1	1	9

Number of Bollywood movies in countries classified by distance from Mumbai

Class	I	II	III	IV	V	VI
Movies – total	259	80	57	73	693	324
Movies – average	20	7	4	6	53	25

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Determinants of the spatial diffusion of Bollywood cinema

Published Online: Jan 31, 2019

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Received: Jun 05, 2018

Accepted: Sep 16, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0030

KeywordsSpatial diffusion, spatial diffusion determinants, Bollywood, Bollywood cinema; popular hindi cinema

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Distance from Mumbai, size of diaspora and number of Bollywood movies distributed in the referred countries.

Number of countries with their 1st Bollywood premiere in 1970–2010

Number of Bollywood movies in countries classified by size of Indian diaspora

Number of countries with 1st Bollywood premiere in 1970–2010

Number of Bollywood movies in countries classified by distance from Mumbai

Keywords
Spatial diffusion, spatial diffusion determinants, Bollywood, Bollywood cinema; popular hindi cinema