Bollywood
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈbɑːlɪwʊd/
- Twitter offers 350 categories of interests, from Bollywood movies to gardening.
- Bollywood movies
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Watch on YouTubeSo as you can imagine, Bollywood is very popular in India.
- So as you can imagine, Bollywood is very popular in India.
- OK, From your observations, what can Bollywood teach American film makers and vice versa?
- But Punjabi music has been existing for years and years and years and Bollywood looks up to Punjabi music.
- All right, hey, you guys, and specifically you, you guys, you know, Ian and I, we first connected with our shared love of Bollywood movies.
- Or you watch the movies where, you know, the Indian Bollywood movies where there'll be the, you know, potential in laws that come in and they'll say, no, she's a bit dark for us.
- I'd like to be in I'd like to crack this Bollywood film industry.
- My, my Bangladeshi relatives had VHS tapes were being sent from India, Bollywood films.
- And so you had on Sunday night's one Bollywood movie.
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I want to give you a big thumbs up for your selection of Bollywood hits.
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The colorful costumes and dance sequences in Bollywood films are often celebrated worldwide.
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So as you can imagine, Bollywood is very popular in India.
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We're going to see a Bollywood movie at the Zone, and it's getting late.
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I would rather go to sleep than stay up all night watching some old Bollywood movies.
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We even have Bollywood dancing in this movie.
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Though her movies got mixed responses, she made her presence in Bollywood significant.
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This vintage Bollywood vibe is just so beautiful.
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The real India lies somewhere between the glitz and glamour of Bollywood movies and the poverty and despair of literary novels and documentaries.
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She dreams of becoming a star in Bollywood after watching films from the industry.
Synonyms
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3.0
A cinema where films are shown to many people
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2.4
People and companies that make, sell, and show movies
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2.5
A business that makes and shows films for people to watch
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3.2
A process of planning, shooting, editing, and distributing movies
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3.4
Making movies from the first idea to the finished film
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7.6
People and companies that make movies
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The world of movies and the people who make them
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6.8
The world of movies and the people who make them
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bollywood comes from joining Bombay, the old name for Mumbai, and Hollywood, the famous US film area. So Bollywood means the Hindi-language film industry in Mumbai, and the name helps you remember the colourful songs and big, dramatic stories these films are known for.