Why is 'Bollywood' called 'Bollywood'?
Hope you don't find this a silly question but is 'Bollywood' a place, if not why are these films called Bollywood films?
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- Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood.
- To rhythm with HOLLYWOOD
Bombay is called BOLLYWOOD
(where movies are produced, specially in HINDI language).
Tollygunj is called TOLLYWOOD.
(where the Film studios are located in KOLKATA - known as Calcutta in earlier days.)
- I'm asking myself the same question!...I think it's India's poor attempt at trying to create their own Hollywood. There is only one Hollywood and you can't copy it! :-)
- the "Hollywood" of India is in Bombay (Mumbay) that's why it's called Bollywood
- Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. The term is sometimes used incorrectly to refer to the whole of Indian cinema.
The name is a combination of Bombay, the English name for Mumbai, and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry. Though some purists deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it seems likely to persist and now has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. Such names have also been used for other industries, including Kollywood, Tollywood, Lollywood and Nollywood.-
- It's a place, and its the Indian movie industry, based on Bombay.
- The name is a combination of Bombay, the English name for Mumbai, and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.
- The name is a combination of Bombay, the English name for Mumbai, and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.
Great reading at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bollywood...
- No such place as Bollywood exists.
Its just a name given to the Hindi film industry [based in Bombay] by an over enthusiastic film magazine reporter ---- inspired by Hollywood perhaps. & the name stuck ever since.