![]() ![]() Bollywood films rarely get mainstream distribution in North America, so many American audiences tend to overlook their importance and ubiquity in the world market, but the sheer overpowering world popularity of the Bollywood form deserves a lecture unto itself. Mumbai, previously Bombay, has been the richest and most active center of Indian cinema since the inception of the form, and they haven't even gone through a comparative slouch in production, making hundreds upon hundreds of films every year. Did you know that America is not the world's largest film producer? For all the times we critics fling around the term “Hollywood” to represent the bulk of mainstream commercial films, we are blithely ignoring a slightly larger, equally well-moneyed segment of world cinema: Bollywood films.īollywood movies are the Hindi-and-English-language films that are produced in Mumbai, India. ![]()
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