Although the Bollywood Story video pokie is based around the huge Indian film business, the characters on the reels look suspiciously like they have stepped out of a Disney movie, but we won’t complain, as it means this game is filled with fun cartoon symbols.
These include a garland of flowers that creates extra wins as it floats around the screen, a bright jewel that awards up to 30 free spins, and a princess, her suitor and some disapproving parents. All that’s missing is a big song and dance sequence, but players could be celebrating some big wins in this online casino game from Net Ent, and there’s a vibrant soundtrack to go along with the spins.
The ornate columns and a richly-decorated rug are part of the room set behind the reels, and below the game, we see a control panel where players are given the option to stake as little as 0.09 per spin or to raise it incrementally to the high limit of 90.00. All 9 paylines that run across the 5 reels are permanently active, so it can’t spun for just 0.01 and for that reason, most online casinos offer free Bollywood Story video pokies to test out before making real cash wagers.
Playing card symbols, given a subtle Indian-style font, will make up the lower-value winning lines, and like all standard wins, 3, 4 or 5 of the same type will need to land across a payline on adjacent reels from the left side to be worth anything. The 10 pays out 3x, 15x or 30x the amount bet per line when it lands across the reels, and while getting 3 or 4 of the J, Q and K pays the same, full lines of 5 are worth progressively more until we arrive at the A that’s the high-paying card symbol and returns 3, 15, or 100x the line bet.
The cartoon mother is the lower-value character symbols and this stern-looking lady pays out 9, 50 or 300x, while her husband is worth 9, 75 or 400x. There’s no real back-story to the characters, so we shall just assume that the handsome man is trying to win the affections of their beautiful daughter, but it could be the other way around, so we’ll leave it to players’ imaginations. Whoever they are, he’s worth between 9 and 500x and she pays out between 15 and 750x the line bet.
The Bollywood Story logo is the most valuable symbol of the lot, returning 15x the line bet when it stops on 3 reels, while 4 of them are worth 200x and the top payout of 1,000x is the award for landing a full run of 5 across a line.
The highlight of this pokie are the Floating Wilds, that are a feature on a number of Net Ent games and can lead to win after win. On every spin, 2, 3 or 4 wild symbols will be randomly laid over regular symbols, and while it’s not guaranteed that they will substitute for others to complete a winline, they frequently do.
The blue jewel is a scatter symbol, and the only one that the wild won’t be able to substitute for. Instead, this colourful item will launch a free spins bonus round and doesn’t need to be across a payline to trigger it. Any 3 scatters will trigger 10 extra spins, if 4 appear at once, then players are awarded 20 games and should 5 scatters land at once, then the maximum of 30 free spins will play out, although the round can be retriggered if 3 or more jewels appear in any bonus spin.
To help make this an even better feature, instead of there being between 2 and 4 Floating Wilds in a spin, the number is increased to between 3 and 6, which gives lots more opportunity for the wild symbol to replace others and create extra real cash winning combinations.
Bollywood Story has a fairly unique theme, which we certainly haven’t come across before, and a nice design that’s emphasised by a catchy soundtrack. While wins in the main round are perhaps not as generous as many other games, particularly as there’s the unusual payout structure where 3 or 4 of the card symbols are all worth the same, the in-game features more than make up for this.
Having several wild symbols guaranteed in each spin is a great extra, even if they don’t always complete a winning line, but once the free spins bonus games are triggered, and up to 6 wilds are added to each mix, then it’s pretty certain that multiple winning combinations are going to be spun up for punters in this fun pokie.