India is widely known as the biggest producer of films, now globally known with the portmanteau “Bollywood.” India also grabs the media attention for another reason—climate change. In 2015, The New York Times published an op-ed with a cartoon showing India as the proverbial “elephant” blocking the progress at the Paris Climate Change Conference. With the staggering number of films India produces and the steady increase in climate change-related disasters that India faces, the critics embraced the film Kadvi Hawa (literally, Dark Wind or Bitter Wind, 2017) as the “pioneering” film raising the critical issue of climate change. However, the issues raised in the movie were amply dealt with in several other Indian films in the last several decades. This article is a survey of Indian films that have shown or dealt with nature, environment, or climate starting from the 1940s till the present time.

印度被广泛认为是最大的电影制作国，现在以混成词“宝莱坞”闻名于世。印度还因为另一个原因引起了媒体的关注——气候变化。2015 年，《纽约时报》发表了一篇带有漫画的专栏文章，将印度描绘成阻碍巴黎气候变化会议取得进展的众所周知的“大象”。随着印度制作的电影数量惊人以及印度面临的与气候变化相关的灾难不断增加，评论家对电影Kadvi Hawa表示欢迎（字面意思是《暗风》或《苦风》，2017 年）作为提出气候变化关键问题的“开创性”电影。然而，电影中提出的问题在过去几十年的其他几部印度电影中得到了充分处理。本文是对从 1940 年代至今表现或处理自然、环境或气候的印度电影的调查。