Hindi cinema, often known as 

Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema,[4] is the Indian Hindi-

language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The term is a portmanteau of "Bombay"
and "Hollywood". The industry is related to Cinema of South India and other Indian film industries,
making up Indian cinema—the world's largest by number of feature films produced. [3][5][6]
In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, with Bollywood as its largest filmmaker,
producing 364 Hindi films the same year.[3] Bollywood represents 43 percent of Indian net box-office
revenue; Tamil and Telugu cinema represent 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema
constituted 21 percent in 2014. [7] Bollywood is one of the largest centres of film production in the
world.[8][9][10] In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Bollywood) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6
billion tickets worldwide, compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold.[11][12][13] Bollywood films tend
to use vernacular Hindustani, mutually intelligible by people who self-identify as speaking
either Hindi or Urdu,[14][15][16] and modern Bollywood movies[17] increasingly incorporate elements
of Hinglish.[14]
The most popular commercial genre in Bollywood since the 1970s has been the masala film, which
freely mixes different genres including action, comedy, romance, drama and melodrama along
with musical numbers.[18][19][20][21] Masala films generally fall under the musical film genre, of which
Indian cinema has been the largest producer since the 1960s when it exceeded the American film
industry's total musical output after musical films declined in the West; the first Indian musical talkie
was Alam Ara (1931), several years after the first Hollywood musical talkie The Jazz Singer (1927).
Alongside commercial masala films, a distinctive genre of art films known as parallel cinema has
also existed, presenting realistic content and avoidance of musical numbers. In more recent years,
the distinction between commercial masala and parallel cinema has been gradually blurring, with an
increasing number of mainstream films adopting the conventions which were once strictly associated
with parallel cinema.

"Bollywood" is a portmanteau derived from Bombay (the former name of Mumbai) and "Hollywood",
a shorthand reference for the American film industry which is based in Hollywood, California.[22]
The term "Tollywood", for the Tollygunge-based cinema of West Bengal, predated "Bollywood".[23] It
was used in a 1932 American Cinematographer article by Wilford E. Deming, an American engineer
who helped produce the first Indian sound picture. [23]
"Bollywood" was probably invented in Bombay-based film trade journals in the 1960s or 1970s,
though the exact inventor varies by account.[24][25] Film journalist Bevinda Collaco claims she coined
the term for the title of her column in Screen magazine.[26] Her column entitled "On the Bollywood
Beat" covered studio news and celebrity gossip. [26] Other sources state that lyricist, filmmaker and
scholar Amit Khanna was its creator.[27] It's unknown if it was derived from "Hollywood" through
"Tollywood", or was inspired directly by "Hollywood".
The term has been criticised by some film journalists and critics, who believe it implies that the
industry is a poor cousin of Hollywood.[22][28]
"Bollywood" has since inspired a long list of Hollywood-inspired nicknames.