December 22, 2003
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So I have friends who are into foreign movies. One porn freek loves him some hentai. Another one of my friends has a fascination with Indian Movies.
Evidentally they refer to indian movies as Bollywood, Hindi and a bunch of other terms.
I searched Google to define: Bollywood, but Princeton was the only place with a definition...and it was rather generic "the film industry of India." I am told Bollywood is a spin off Hollywood, I just wanted to know what it means.
As I searched I realize I am not the only one perplexed by the name.
Posted at December 22, 2003 10:34 AMA number of different languages are spoken in India (there are 14 official languages). One of the main languages is Hindi (it is also India's national language).
Movies in Hindi language are mainly produced in a city (used to be) called BOMBAY. Hence the nickname of Hindi film industry is BOLLYWOOD (BOMBAY+HOLLYWOOD).
India also produces a number of good films in other regional Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannad, Bengali etc.
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I would like to know, where can i get bollywood movie dvd's in Berlin.
Regards
Bollywood: The term used to describe the Mumbai based indian film industry. The name Bollywood was created with a mixture of Hollywood (the american film industry) and Bombay (now called Mumbai)
