15 Facts About Gujarati cinema

Gujarati cinema, known as Gollywood or Dhollywood, is the Gujarati language film industry.

Kohinoor's first film, Sati Parvati, which depicted Gujarati cinema culture, was directed by Vishnupant Divekar and featured Prabha, an actress from Rajkot, in the lead role of Parvati.

Akhand Saubhagyavati was the first Gujarati cinema film financed by the Film Finance Corporation and starred Asha Parekh in the lead role.

Actor-director Krishna Kant, popularly known as KK, directed about a dozen Gujarati cinema films including: Kulvadhu, Gharsansar (1978), Visamo (1978) and Jog Sanjog (1980).

Gujarati cinema directed Kariyavar based on the novel Vanzari Vaav by Shayda.

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Gujarati cinema made several films with urban backgrounds such as Mota Gharni Vahu, Lohini Sagaai based on the novel by Ishwar Petlikar, Paarki Thaapan, Shetal Tara Oonda Paani (1986) which were commercially as well as critically successful.

Gujarati cinema produced Jher To Pidhan Jaani Jaani based on the epic novel of the same name by Manubhai Pancholi 'Darshak'.

Gujarati cinema produced, acted and directed in Manvi ni Bhavai based on the novel of the same name by Pannalal Patel.

Avinash Vyas was one of the major composers of the Gujarati cinema who wrote music for 168 Gujarati films and 61 Hindi films.

Gujarati cinema's son Gaurang Vyas was a composer who wrote the music for Bhavni Bhavai.

The entertainment tax exemption for Gujarati cinema films released in Gujarat ended with an introduction of the Goods and Services Tax in July 2017.

Scripts and stories of the Gujarati cinema films include relationship and family oriented subjects, as well as human aspirations and Gujarati cinema family culture.

Several Gujarati cinema films were adapted from Gujarati cinema novels and stories such as Kashino Dikro.

About one thousand and thirty Gujarati cinema films were made between 1932 and 2011 but very few are archived.

At the National Film Archive of India, only twenty Gujarati cinema films including two Parsi-Gujarati cinema films, Pestoneei (1987) directed by Vijaya Mehta and Percy (1989) directed by Pervez Merwanji, are archived.