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Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is a part of Indian cinema. It is based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, and is dedicated to the production of films in the Bengali-language. The following table lists the top 10 highest-grossing Indian Bengali films.
The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century. [8] [9] Indian cinema is made up of various film industries, each focused on producing films in a specific language, such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Assamese and others.
The industry has produced many of the most expensive films in the Indian cinema, such as Enthiran, Baahubali, 2.0, RRR and Kalki 2898 AD. [3] Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), directed by S. S. Rajamouli, was the first South Indian and Indian film to gross over ₹1000 crore worldwide and remains the highest-grossing film in India to date. [4 ...
Kumar was the biggest Indian star of the 1950s and 1960s, [21] a matinee idol and the country's highest paid actor of the period. [22] His 1960 film Mughal-e-Azam was the first Indian film with an adjusted gross over ₹ 2000 crore , making it the highest-grossing Indian film for over six decades.
Khanna was named as one of "the men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema" by CNN-News18. [170] In 1973, BBC made a documentary on him, named Bombay Superstar as a part of the series, Man Alive. [171] [172] A textbook prescribed by the Mumbai University contained an essay, "The Charisma of Rajesh Khanna!" [173] Khanna acted alongside Mumtaz ...
Indian films were very popular in Soviet Union at the time, routinely opening to packed houses. However, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, bringing an end to Indian cinema's largest overseas market at the time. [20] The decline of Russian cinema in the post-Soviet era led to Indian films largely disappearing from Russian cinemas by the mid ...
Singanalluru Puttaswamaiah Muthuraj (24 April 1929 – 12 April 2006), [1] better known by his stage name Dr. Rajkumar, was an Indian actor and singer who worked in Kannada cinema. Through his over five-decade long career of over 200 films, he was regarded one of the most pivotal and influential figures of the Kannada film industry .
He is referred to as the "first superstar" [26] and the "original superstar" of Indian cinema. [27] He starred in 15 consecutive solo hit films in the period 1969 to 1971, still an unbroken record. [28] [29] Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia's daughters Twinkle Khanna, and Rinkle Khanna have also acted in the industry.