Bollywood for the Skeptical. Something About Bollywood Movies and Music The film industry in Bombay, which is now called Mumbai for reasons which have more to do with regional and religious intolerance than with anticolonialism, is the biggest in the world. It makes almost double the number of movies and sells a billion more tickets each year than Hollywood. There are big industries in other areas of India, producing a lot of movies in local languages, especially Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada, but most of the time, the quality is lower (and Bollywood itself is already famous for making a lot of stinkers) and the number of mustachios higher. The main exception is West Bengal, where the Indian intelligentsia are centered in Calcutta (now Kolkata), and where some art movies are made, notably by Satyajit Ray (d. 1992). The Indian theater and literature scenes are also mostly in Calcutta, although Bombay and, to a lesser degree, Delhi and Madras (now Chennai) also have stuff going on.
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