What is Bollywood?

Date: Thursday, June 19, 2003 1:05 PM

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I have received many emails asking what Bollywood is. This should help.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/2003/bollywood/newsid_2683000/2683799.stm

What is Bollywood?

Bollywood is the nickname given to the Indian film industry - it's a
play on the word Hollywood. The B comes from Bombay (also known as
Mumbai), a big city in India.

Bollywood is massive. It makes up to 800 films a year - twice as many
as Hollywood and about 14 million Indian people go to the cinema
everyday

Films are made so fast that sometimes actors on set shoot scenes for
four different films at a time - using the same actors and the same
backgrounds. And sometimes the scripts are even hand-written!

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