What is Bollywood?

Question

I keep seeing stuff on it, but I have no idea what it means.

Answer 1

its the indian hollywood

Answer 2

~the extremely popuar indian hollywood. It is a cross of bombay (city in india) and hollywood. It accounts for releasing about 400 movies a year.

Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. The term is sometimes used incorrectly to refer to the whole of Indian cinema.

The name is a portmanteau of Bombay, the English name for Mumbai, and Hollywood, the center of the American 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, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada) 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 Pakistan, but also of the rest of South Asia, 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, Australia and the U.S., all of which have large Indian immigrant populations.

Bollywood is also commonly referred to as "Hindi cinema", even though Hindustani, the substratum common to both Hindi and Urdu, might be more accurate. 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 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).

Answer 3

Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular mumbai based Hindi language film industry in India. The term is sometime used incorrectly to refer to the whole of India cinema. The name is portmanteau of Bombay the English name for mumbai and Hollywood the center of the American film industry, though some purists deplore,the name arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, its seems likely to persist and now has it own entry in the oxford English dictionary.

Answer 4

Location: Bollywood (or Baliwuud) is a city in India.
Fasion: Bollywood is also an Indian fasion that is becoming more popular with Americans everyday.

Answer 5

It's not really Indian Hollywood because there is no city called Bollywood. In fact, according to wikipedia, it is incorrectly used to describe all of Indian cinema when it really only refers to "the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India."

Answer 6

The movies that come out of India are referred to as Bollywood movies.

Answer 7

India's Hollywood

Answer 8

The Indian film industry

Answer 9

Its an Indian Hollywood

Answer 10

Hollywood - Indian style