bollywood

Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema. Bollywood is only a part of the Indian film Industry. more...

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The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry. Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it seems likely to persist and now has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Bollywood is also commonly referred to as Hindi cinema, even though Hindustani, the substratum common to both Hindi and Urdu, might be more accurate. Many people make the mistake of defining Bollywood as all of the movies that are played in India such as Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, etc. However, Bollywood consists of the languages of Hindi and Urdu. The use of poetic Urdu words is fairly common. The connection between Hindi, Urdu, and Hindustani is an extremely contentious matter and is discussed at length in the linked articles relating specifically to the languages.

There has been a growing presence of English in dialogue and songs as well. It is not uncommon to see films that feature dialogue with English words and phrases, even whole sentences. A few films are also made in two or even three languages (either using subtitles, or several soundtracks).

Popularity and Appeal

Bollywood and the other major cinematic hubs (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali,Oriya,Malayalam and Assamese) constitute the broader Indian film industry, whose output is the largest in the world in number of tickets sold. It also has large diasporic audiences in the West Indies,Caribbean, UK, Canada, Australia and the U.S., all of which have large Indian immigrant populations, but are also enjoyed by the natives as well. . Bollywood is a strong part of popular culture of not only India, but also of the rest of South Asia,in countries such as Pakistan despite the ban, the Middle East, parts of Africa, parts of Southeast Asia, and among the South Asian diaspora worldwide.

Asia

Indian films have historically been popular in quite a few Arab countries, particularly in the Gulf countries. Almost all imported Indian films are immediately dubbed in Arabic upon their release. Indian film stars have huge fan base in a variety of Arab countries.

Rumours of Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan's death caused quite a stir in the Arab world, especially Cairo, when they were printed in the Al-Ahram newspaper. The rumors were eventually proven wrong, but also proved the breadth of Bollywood's fan-base in the Arab world.

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