hindi cinema information

 hindi cinema information  

Hindi cinema, often referred to as Bollywood and formerly Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The word is a portmanteau of "Bombay" and "Hollywood". The industry is closely related to the cinema of South India and other Indian film industries, which form Indian cinema—the world's largest cinema by the number of feature films produced.

     In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, with Bollywood being the largest filmmaker, producing 364 Hindi films in the same year. Bollywood represents 43 percent of Indian net box-office revenue; Tamil and Telugu cinema represented 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema represented 21 percent in 2014. Bollywood is to become the largest center of film production in the world. In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Bollywood) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6 billion tickets worldwide, while Hollywood sold 2.6 billion tickets. Bollywood films use the vernacular Hindustani, which is mutually intelligible by those who self-identify as speaking Hindi or Urdu, and modern Bollywood films increasingly incorporate elements of Hinglish.

    The most popular commercial genre in Bollywood since the 1970s has been masala film, which mixes various genres including action, comedy, romance, drama and melodrama freely with musical numbers] Masala films are generally musical films. genre, of which Indian cinema has been the largest producer since the 1960s, when it exceeded the total music output of the American film industry after a decline in musical films in the West; The first Indian musical talkie was Alam Ara (1931), several years after the first Hollywood musical talkie The Jazz Singer (1927). Along with commercial masala films, a distinctive style of art films, known as parallel cinema, also exists, in which realistic material is presented and musical numbers are avoided. In recent years, the distinction between commercial masala and parallel cinema is gradually blurring, with an increasing number of mainstream films adopting traditions that were once strictly tied to parallel cinema.