  An understanding of how individuals shape and impact the evolution of society
is vastly limited due to the unavailability of large-scale reliable datasets
that can simultaneously capture information regarding individual movements and
social interactions. We believe that the popular Indian film industry,
'Bollywood', can provide a social network apt for such a study. Bollywood
provides massive amounts of real, unbiased data that spans more than 100 years,
and hence this network has been used as a model for the present paper. The
nodes which maintain a moderate degree or widely cooperate with the other nodes
of the network tend to be more fit (measured as the success of the node in the
industry) in comparison to the other nodes. The analysis carried forth in the
current work, using a conjoined framework of complex network theory and random
matrix theory, aims to quantify the elements that determine the fitness of an
individual node and the factors that contribute to the robustness of a network.
The authors of this paper believe that the method of study used in the current
paper can be extended to study various other industries and organizations.
