Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
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23 Facts About Hindi cinema
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The industry is a part of the larger Indian Hindi cinema, which includes South Cinema and other smaller film industries.
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In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest number, 364 have been from Hindi.
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Hindi cinema has overtaken the U S film industry to become the largest centre for film production in the world.
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Masala films generally fall under the musical film genre, of which Indian Hindi cinema has been the largest producer since the 1960s when it exceeded the American film industry's total musical output after musical films declined in the West; the first Indian musical talkie was Alam Ara, several years after the first Hollywood musical talkie The Jazz Singer .
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Alongside commercial masala films, a distinctive genre of art films known as parallel Hindi cinema has existed, presenting realistic content and avoidance of musical numbers.
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In more recent years, the distinction between commercial masala and parallel Hindi cinema has been gradually blurring, with an increasing number of mainstream films adopting the conventions which were once strictly associated with parallel Hindi cinema.
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Hindi cinema'scolumn entitled "On the Bollywood Beat" covered studio news and celebrity gossip.
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Some best-known epic films of Hindi cinema were produced at this time, such as K Asif's Mughal-e-Azam .
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Early examples of parallel Hindi cinema include Dharti Ke Lal, directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and based on the Bengal famine of 1943, ; Neecha Nagar directed by Chetan Anand and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zamin .
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Hindi cinema experienced another period of stagnation during the late 1980s with a box-office decline due to increasing violence, a decline in musical quality, and a rise in video piracy.
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Hindi cinema films have had a socio-political impact on Indian society, reflecting Indian politics.
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The sports film Lagaan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and two other Hindi cinema films were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.
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Hindi cinema films are primarily musicals, and are expected to have catchy song-and-dance numbers woven into the script.
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Hindi cinema can be insular, and relatives of film-industry figures have an edge in obtaining coveted roles in films or being part of a film crew.
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Post-Independence, Hindi cinema films tended to use a colloquial register of Hindustani, mutually intelligible by Hindi cinema and Urdu speakers, but the use of the latter has declined over years.
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Encyclopedia of Hindi Cinema noted a number of top Urdu writers for preserving the language through film.
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Several Hindi cinema films have been commercially successful in Japan, including Mehboob Khan's Aan and Aziz Mirza's Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman .
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Hindi cinema films declined significantly in popularity in China during the 1980s.
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Hindi cinema films have become popular in Arab countries, and imported Indian films are usually subtitled in Arabic when they are released.
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Hindi cinema films were originally distributed to some parts of Africa by Lebanese businessmen.
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