Crossword clues for bollywood
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"film industry based in Mumbai, India," 1977, from Bombay (old name of Mumbai) + Hollywood.
Wikipedia
Bollywood is the sobriquet for the Hindi language film industry based in Mumbai, the most populous city of the Republic of India. It is more formally referred to as Hindi cinema. The term "Bollywood" is often loosely used as a synecdoche to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; however, Bollywood proper is only a part of the larger Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in many other Indian languages.
Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in India, representing 43% of the net box office revenue, while Telugu and Tamil cinema are representing at 36%, and the rest of the regional cinema constitutes at 21% as of 2014. Bollywood is also one of the largest centers of film production in the world. Bollywood is also one of the biggest film industries in the world in terms of the number of people employed and the number of films produced. In 2011, over 3.5 billion tickets were sold across the globe which in comparison is 900,000 tickets more than Hollywood. Bollywood produced 252 films in 2014 out of a total of 1969 films produced in Indian cinema.
Bollywood may refer to a number of tree species:
- Cinnamomum baileyanum, brown Bollywood
- Lindera queenslandica, Bollywood
- Litsea bindoniana, big-leaf Bollywood, round-leaf Bollywood
- Litsea breviumbellata, brown Bollywood, rusty-leaf Bollywood
- Litsea connorsii, Bollywood
- Litsea fawcettiana, brown Bollywood
- Litsea glutinosa, brown Bollywood
- Litsea granitica, Bollywood
- Litsea leefeana, brown Bollywood, big-leaf Bollywood
- Litsea reticulata, brown Bollywood
- Neolitsea australiensis, grey Bollywood
- Neolitsea brassii, grey Bollywood
- Neolitsea cassia, grey Bollywood
- Neolitsea dealbata, grey Bollywood, velvet-leaf Bollywood, white Bollywood
"Bollywood" is a song by American recording artist Liz Phair. It was the lead single from her sixth album, Funstyle.
Usage examples of "bollywood".
Being from Bollywood, Sanjay never went anywhere in life without a posse of backup dancers.
Even as Bollywood star-children go, Amitabh is as dumb as a racehorse.
He talked an incessant stream of nonsense, bad jokes, lines from Bollywood blockbusters, ancient poetry.
Rants, music, rip-offs of the latest Bollywood hits: the cat spiders past them all, looking for the final sample.
From a ratty film poster a life-size Bollywood star grinned smugly at the rickety iron bed, the mattress stained with subcontinents.
He wondered sometimes if he even remembered her face correctly, or if he had replaced it with an ancient poster of a Bollywood girl, one of the old ones that Shriram kept in the safe of his winding shop and guarded jealously from the influences of light and air.
Answer: a science fiction musical comedy folk action religious drama with a big Bollywood ending.
There, desperately seeking air conditioning, he saw a lot of Bollywood films.
The storefront ambience is dressed up by carved, off-white moldings and arches designed to mimic ivory, polychrome tapestry murals of Indian country scenes, posters of Bollywood movies.
November was definitely out of season and the constellation was confined to three minor genome-proteone heiresses, the elderly founder of LearningCurve GmB, two balding Bollywood lotharios, the Van der Bilt girl and him .
Rants, music, rip-offs of the latest Bollywood hits: The cat spiders past them all, looking for the final sample.