Bollywood

Hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as Bollywood, and formerly known as Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry, based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India. The term being a portmanteau of "Bombay" and "Hollywood". As India is a multi-lingual society with variety of languages spoken by its residents, multiple language films are churned out in their native languages by film industries such as Hindi-language film industry (popularly known to world as Bollywood), Tamil film industry (Kollywood), Telugu film industry ('Tollywood') and others, together combined they form the massive Indian Cinema , the largest film industry in the world.