Question

Explain the growth of regional cinema in India.

Answer 1

ininIndia is home to one of the largest film
industries
thousands of movies are produced
India. Indian film industry comprises of
Hindi films. regional movies and art
Cinema. The Indian film industry IS
supported mainly by a vast film-going
Indian public, though Indian films have
been gaining increasing popularity in the
rest of the world, especially in countries
with large numbers of emigrant Indians.the world. Every yearinIndia is a large country where many
languages are spoken. Many of the larger
languages support their own film industry.
Some of the popular regional film
industries in India are Bengali, Tamil,
Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Punjabi.
The Hindi/Urdu film industry, basedintheBollywood. Similar neologisms have been
coined for the Tamil film industry
Kollywood and the Telugu film industry.
Tollygunge is metonym for the Bengali
film industry, long centered
Tollygunge district of Kolkata. The Bengali
language industry is notable as having
nurtured the director Satyajit Ray, an
internationally renowned filmmaker and a
winner of many awards.The Bollywood industry is the largest in
terms of films produced and box office
receipts, just as Urdu/Hindi speakers
outnumber speakers of other Indian
languages. Many workers in other regional
industries, once established, generally
move to Bollywood for greater spotlight or
opportunity. An interesting example of this
phenomenon is the famous music director
A.R. Rahman. He started his career inTamil film industry and later moved to the
Bollywood.
Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is called