Bollywood Backgrounder

By Alexa O'Brien on September 17, 2006 8:19 PM |

India: Asia's emerging economic superpower—Part 8

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"The first foreign-made silent movie was shown in India more than a hundred years ago in 1896. The venue was Mumbai (Bombay). The first domestic movie was produced there, and ever since Mumbai has become the center of movie production."

"With the advent of talkies, multilingual India developed a number of distinct movie industries, one for each major language spoken in the country."

"India has 16 official languages, but the influence of Bollywood cinema was instrumental in making Hindi the common language for the whole of India."

"The Tamil film industry (known as “Kollywood”) based in Chennai (Madras) and the Bengali film industry based in Kolkata (Calcutta) are also booming. India is a movie superpower, producing the world’s largest number of films, about 800 every year. Of those, more than 30 percent are Bollywood films, and about 20 percent are from competitor Kollywood."

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