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The Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema, which was printed in Noida, was subsequently released by the company in association with Popular Prakashan on 26 February 2003 in Mumbai. [1]:ii [5] A critic from The Hindu described it as an "insightful study of Bollywood"; [6] Suresh Kohli from The Tribune called it a "wonderfully produced, expensive coffee ...
Mother India defined conventional Hindi cinema for decades. [46] [47] [48] It spawned a genre of dacoit films, in turn defined by Gunga Jumna (1961). [49] Written and produced by Dilip Kumar, Gunga Jumna was a dacoit crime drama about two brothers on opposite sides of the law (a theme which became common in Indian films during the 1970s). [50]
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 producing films in different languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Bhojpuri and others.
The term 'Bollywood', often mistakenly used to refer to Indian cinema as a whole, only refers to Hindi-language films, with Indian cinema being an umbrella term that includes all the film industries in the country, each offering films in diverse languages and styles. In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest ...
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The book is a chronicle of Bollywood, the Hindi film industry, from its inception with Raja Harishchandra in 1913 to its status as a major global entertainment force. The book details the significant technological innovations and industry developments that have occurred over the decades, contributing to Bollywood's growth.
The hundred luminaries of Hindi cinema. India Book House Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7508-007-2. Krishnaswamy, Revathi; Hawley, John Charles (2008). The postcolonial and the global. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 200–. ISBN 978-0-8166-4609-8. Hogan, Patrick Colm (1 October 2008). Understanding Indian movies: culture, cognition, and cinematic ...
Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.