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Hi. What is the origin of bollywood? It Rythms with hollywood?My understanding is that bolly should be somehow related to India?Thanks for your response

KrisBlueNZ · Accepted Answer

Wikipedia will answer all your questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood

Hrsanei · Answer

Thanks for the link.

O.ABOOTTY · Answer

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing films in regional languages. Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centers of film production in the world. Bollywood is formally referred to as Hindi cinema.

The name "Bollywood" is derived from Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States.However, unlike Hollywood, Bollywood does not exist as a physical place. Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood,it has its own entry in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary.

The term "Bollywood" has origins in the 1970s, when India overtook America as the world's largest film producer. Credit for the term has been claimed by several different people, including the lyricist, filmmaker and scholar Amit Khanna,and the journalist Bevinda Collaco.

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