Bollywood spices up Aussie filmmaking

• This resource is valuable for supporting the year 10 Literacy content description in English focusing on analysing and evaluating how people, cultures, places, events, objects and concepts are represented in texts, including media texts as students explore Australian movies with ties to Bollywood.
• The resource is valuable for supporting the year Historical knowledge and understanding content description that has a focus on the influence of overseas developments such as Bollywood as students are given the opportunity to see the influence of Bollywood on two Australian movies.
• This resource is of significant value to support the implementation of the Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia priority in History and English, with particular emphasis on the first organising idea, the peoples and countries of Asia are diverse in ethnic background, traditions, cultures, belief systems and religions; the third organising idea, the peoples and countries of Asia have contributed and continue to contribute to world history and human endeavour and the fourth organising idea, the arts and literature of Asia influence aesthetic and creative pursuits within Australia, the region and globally.
• This resource is valuable as it provides teachers with strategies to support the implementation of the Intercultural Understanding capability, especially learning about and engaging with diverse cultures in ways that create connections with others and cultivate mutual respect.
• This resource is valuable as it provides activities that develop students' ability to process and synthesise information from a range of sources as they explore the impact of Bollywood on Australian film making.

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