Indian Film Industy

Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood used to refer to mainstream Hindi cinema is a portmanteau of “Bombay” and “Hollywood”.

Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Telugu cinema is based in Film Nagar, a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, India.The nickname Tollywood is a portmanteau of the words Telugu and Hollywood.By 2021, it has emerged as the largest film industry in India in terms of box-office

Malayalam cinema, also known as Mollywood, is an Indian film industry of Malayalam-language motion pictures. It is based in Kerala, India. The films produced in Malayalam cinema are known for their cinematography and story-driven realistic plots. In 1982, Elippathayam won the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival, and Most Original Imaginative Film of 1982 by the British Film Institute. Rajiv Anchal’s Guru (1997), Salim Ahamed’s Adaminte Makan Abu (2011) and Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Jallikkattu (2019) were Malayalam films sent by India as its official entries for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards.

Tamil cinema, popularly known as Kollywood, is a part of Indian Cinema, engaged in production of motion pictures in Tamil language. It is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in the Kodambakkam neighbourhood, the word being a portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood. The first Tamil silent film, Keechaka Vadham, was made by R. Nataraja Mudaliar in 1918. The first talking motion picture, Kalidas, was a multilingual film directed by H M Reddy and was released on 31 October 1931, less than seven months after India’s first talking motion picture Alam Ara.By the end of the 1930s, the legislature of the State of Madras passed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939.