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Bollywood is a nickname given to the Indian film industry. It’s a play on the word Hollywood. The B comes from Bombay, a big city in India.

Bollywood makes about 800 films a year – twice as many as Hollywood! Films are made so fast that sometimes directors set shoot scenes for four different films at a time – using the same actors and the same backgrounds. Over 14 million Indian people go to the cinema every day.

Bollywood was born in 1899, when the first Indian short film was made. Just like in Hollywood the films were silent to begin with, then in the 1930s the films became «talkies».

Bollywood films are really colourful and are full of singing, dancing and lots of costume changes. Most films are about love.