Bollywood

=**__B ollywood __** = =Mumbai, the City of Dreams, houses the prime centre of Hindi Film Industry, better known as Bollywood. Acclaimed as one of the biggest film industries of the world, Bollywood produces over 1000 films every year. Since 1913, Indian Cinema has made a long journey from simple silent movies to sound films, then colored films to technically advanced movies of the present day. Bollywood, the name is a merger of the term Bombay (now Mumbai) and Hollywood, the American Film Industry. = ==== We love our Bollywood but do we know how it all began? What was the first ever Indian Film? Or how did the term Bollywood start? Well, here is a quick history lesson! 1) The first Full Length Indian Film was Raja Harishchandra made by Dadasaheb Phalke in the year 1913. 2) Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931) was the First Indian Sound Film. 3) Amit Khanna a filmmaker, cinema scholar and the president of the Film & Television Guild, coined the term Bollywood. 4) The Oscar Equivalent Filmfarea aware was started in 1953. 5) According to a recent study around 14 Million Indians visit the cinema and 4 Billion tickets are sold in India exclusively for Bollywood! 6) One research also shows that India accounts for 73% of Asia-Pacific movie admissions. ====

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Some pictures of actors :)