Producer-director-screenwriter Dadasaheb, the "father of Indian cinema".
The industry is segmented by language. With both Hindi film industry (Bollywood), Tamil film industry and Telugu film industry as the biggest. Other prominent film industries include Malayalam film industry, Kannada film industry, Bengali, Marathi, Sanskrit and Punjabi film industry. By 2020, the combined revenue of all regional film industries has surpassed that of the Hindi film industry.
Indian cinema is a global enterprise. Its films have a following throughout Southern Asia and across Europe, North America, Asia, the Greater Middle East, Eastern Africa, China and elsewhere, reaching over 90 countries. Films like Bahubali: The Beginning were dubbed in more than three languages, thus starting a Pan-India films movement. Millions of Indians overseas watch Indian films, accounting for some 12% of revenues.
The term “Bollywood,” though often inaccurately conflated with Indian cinema as a whole, refers just to the Hindi-language industry in the city of Mumbai. There are different regional film industries throughout the country, each in a different language; the most prominent ones are Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and Kannada languages. The regional cinemas share a variety of common tropes (music, dancing, fabulous costumes, high melodrama, et cetera, ad infinitum), with noticeable differences; in a general sense, the south cinemas, Telugu and Tamil in particular, are more floridly rowdy than the comparatively restrained Bollywood industry. The highest paid star in Asia after Jackie Chan is the Tamil-language star, also known as “Superstar” — who, when such things were in vogue, featured in the Indian version of Chuck Norris jokes, owing to similarly titanic dominance over all forms of cinematic villainy.
A great deal of the creative isolation of early Indian cinema, and the development of its own set of rules largely separate from those of the other world cinemas, dates back to regulations the British government established to promote British films over American ones (in the days when Britain ruled India). After winning political independence from Great Britain in 1947, the national film industries, already aesthetically independent, remained that way.
Beyond the aesthetic impact of politics, the thematic content of many Indian films naturally reflects Indian history and politics. Countless films deal with rebellions against the British, or remember rebellion against the British fondly. The partition between India and Pakistan is a frequent subject as well, with political tensions between the two countries providing stories for everything from Cold War-style espionage between the two countries to doomed romances between an Indian boy and a Pakistani girl, to — this being India — both at the same time.
Cinema as a medium has gained immense popularity in India, and as many as 1,600 films in various languages of the country are produced annually.
List of film Awards in India
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
Edison Tamil Awards
Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards East
Filmfare Awards South
International Indian Film Academy Awards
Karnataka State Film Award
Kerala State Film Awards
Maharashtra State Film Awards
National Film Awards (Directorate of Film Festivals)
Odisha State Film Awards
Screen Awards
South Indian International Movie Awards
Stardust Awards
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards
TSR-TV9 National Awards
Vijay Awards
West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
Cinema of India consists of films produced in India. Cinema is immensely popular in India: every year, more than 1800 films are produced collectively in the various languages of India. Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, New Delhi, Amritsar, Bangalore and Guwahati are the major centers of film production in India. As of 2018, India ranked first in terms of annual film output. In 2015, India had a total box office gross of US$2.1 billion, the third largest in the world. The overall revenue of Indian cinema reached US$2.7 billion in 2019.
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