Hindi cinema (Bollywood) | |
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Main distributors | Eros International Reliance Big Pictures UTV Motion Pictures Yash Raj Films[1][2] |
Produced feature films (2017)[3] | |
Total | 364 |
Gross box office (2016)[5] | |
Total | ₹15,500 crore ($2.31 billion) |
National films | India: ₹3,500 crore ($565 million) (2014)[4] |
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JA: I write dialogue in Urdu, but the action and descriptions are in English. Then an assistant transcribes the Urdu dialogue into Devnagari because most people read Hindi. But I write in Urdu. Not only me, I think most of the writers working in this so-called Hindi cinema write in Urdu: Gulzar, or Rajinder Singh Bedi or Inder Raj Anand or Rahi Masoom Raza or Vahajat Mirza, who wrote dialogue for films like Mughal-e-Azam and Gunga Jumna and Mother India. So most dialogue-writers and most song-writers are from the Urdu discipline, even today.
I feel that the Government should eradicate the age-old evil of certifying Urdu films as Hindi ones. It is a known fact that Urdu has been willingly accepted and used by the film industry. Two eminent Urdu writers Krishan Chander and Ismat Chughtai have said that 'more than seventy-five per cent of films are made in Urdu.' It is a pity that although Urdu is freely used in films, the producers in general mention the language of the film as 'Hindi' in the application forms supplied by the Censor Board. It is a gross misrepresentation and unjust to the people who love Urdu.
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(help)CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)Madhava Prasad traces the origin of the term to a 1932 article in the American Cinematographer by Wilford E. Deming, an American engineer who apparently helped produce the first Indian sound picture. At this point, the Calcutta suburb of Tollygunge was the main center of film production in India. Deming refers to the area as Tollywood, since it already boasted two studios with 'several more projected' (Prasad, 2003) 'Tolly', rhyming with 'Holly', got hinged to 'wood' in the Anglophone Indian imagination, and came to denote the Calcutta studios and, by extension, the local film industry. Prasad surmises: 'Once Tollywood was made possible by the fortuitous availability of a half-rhyme, it was easy to clone new Hollywood babies by simply replacing the first letter' (Prasad, 2003).
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(help)Indian films are known for their all singing all dancing formula.
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