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An attempt to make English talkies in India named Karma failed domestically in 1933.. Indian crossover films appeared in Indian cinema with international productions with Indian themes, starting with Merchant Ivory Productions' first venture, The Householder (1963), which has an India story, setting with an Indian cast, and included Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, and Durga Khote.
This is a list of films produced by the Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, based in Mumbai, ordered by year and decade of release.Although "Bollywood" films are generally listed under the Hindi language, most are in Hindustani and in Hindi with partial Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Urdu and occasionally other languages.
Yash Raj Films, one of India's largest production houses and distributors, reported in September 2005 that Bollywood films in the United States earned about $100 million per year in theatre screenings, video sales and the sale of movie soundtracks; [95] Indian films earn more money in the United States than films from any other non-English ...
Hindi cinema is one of the largest centres for film production in the world. Hindi films sold an estimated 341 million tickets in India in 2019. Earlier Hindi films tended to use vernacular Hindustani, mutually intelligible by speakers of either Hindi or Urdu, while modern Hindi productions increasingly incorporate elements of Hinglish.
In China, some of the Indian films to gain commercial success there during the 1970s–1980s included Awaara, Tahir Hussain's Caravan (1971), Noorie (1979), and Disco Dancer. [22] [23] After Indian films declined in the country, it took decades before Tahir Hussain's son Aamir Khan opened up the Chinese market for Indian films in the early 21st ...
The films have gained popularity not only in the Deccan region of India, but as well as other Hindi-Urdu speaking areas of the world. [2] The films are produced in the Deccani language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Deccan region of southern India , and more specifically, in Hyderabadi Urdu, while some films incorporate standard Urdu ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... This is a list of Bollywood films that were released in 2020. [1] ... Ishana Movies, Netflix [97] 13: Chhalaang: Hansal Mehta ...
The Indian Hindi language film industry is nicknamed Bollywood. The 'B' in Bollywood is for the city of Bombay (Mumbai) where the industry is based, the rest of the name being an obvious pun on Hollywood. It produces more than 200 movies a year. Bollywood films should be placed in appropriate subcategories, and in Category:Indian films