2006-06-13 11:31:52 · 11 answers · asked by College Kid 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India.
The name is a conflation of Bombay, the old name of Mumbai, and Hollywood, the center of the United States film industry. Though some purists 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 and the other major cinematic hubs (Tamil - Kollywood, Telugu - Tollywood, Bengali, Kannada, and Malayalam) constitute the broader Indian film industry, whose output is the largest in the world in terms of number of films produced and in number of tickets sold. Bollywood is a strong part of popular culture of not only India and the rest of the Indian subcontinent, but also of the Middle East, parts of Africa, parts of Southeast Asia, and among the South Asian diaspora worldwide. Bollywood has its largest diasporic audiences in the UK, Canada, and the US, all of which have large Indian immigrant populations.
Bollywood is also commonly referred to as "Hindi cinema", even though use of poetic Urdu words is fairly common. (Linguists would call both Hindi and Urdu variants of Hindustani. This is a political debate; see the articles on the various languages/dialects.) There has been a growing presence of English in dialogues and songs as well. It is not uncommon to see movies which feature dialogues with English words and phrases, even whole sentences. A few movies are also made in two or even three languages (either using subtitles, or several soundtracks).
2006-06-13 11:39:02 · answer #1 · answered by SeahawkFan37 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the Indian Film Industry in Mumbai. It's a play on the word Hollywood with the word Bombay(Mumbai).
2006-06-13 11:36:42 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny Rock 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a nickname for the Asian Indian movie industry and I think it is spelled Baliwood (or at least the location of Bali is implied) and I think the name comes as a modification of Hollywood.
**I stand corrected - spelling Bollywood in Bombay. Thanks, Johnny Rock!
2006-06-13 11:34:43 · answer #3 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
one million Saawariya,wat an uneventful movie!!!!!!!!!! two Aaja Nachle three Buddha mar gaya four Nishaab five Aag via amitabh bachchan 6 Sharahat,no experience in any respect 7 Boom eight Ab ke baras nine Sukriyaa 10 Strangers
2016-09-09 01:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a Indian name it came from the Indian
2006-06-13 11:35:14 · answer #5 · answered by precious 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
modernish indian movies taking place in india usually a love story with lots of singing and indian traditional dance
i actually have no idea where they get the name from...ill ask
2006-06-13 11:36:52 · answer #6 · answered by cherrypop 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the very vibrant film industry in India...a play on the word "Hollywood".
2006-06-13 11:35:05 · answer #7 · answered by Bob S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the film industry in India. named for Bombay (now Mumbai) because that was where it was based.
2006-06-13 11:36:41 · answer #8 · answered by hmm... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its in india and it got its name from being a rubbish holywood.
although it make more movies annually than holywood.
but most of them costs less than a school play in the US
2006-06-13 11:35:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, I never knew that they copied it from Hollywood. They have pretty people there though.
2006-06-13 11:35:38 · answer #10 · answered by Suzy Suzee Sue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋