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The cinema of India includes movies produced in India. It has been around since the early 20th century. Movies made in India are popular in the Middle East, South Asia, and Western countries like the United Kingdom and the United States as well as India. In 2010 India produced the most films, with Hollywood and China behind them. Bollywood (Hindi cinema) and Jollywood (Sanskrit cinema) are considered to be the national cinema of India.

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  • Satyajit Ray in New York

    Satyajit Ray is recognised as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.

  • Sridevi07

    Sridevi in 2012. The most successful Indian actress during the 1980s–1990s, she is regarded as one of India's greatest and most influential movie stars and is cited as the "First Female Superstar of Indian cinema".

  • Victoria Public Hall, Chennai

    Victoria Public Hall, is a historical building in Chennai, named after Victoria, Empress of India. It served as a theatre in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.

  • Imax theater hyderabad

    Prasads IMAX Theatre located at Hyderabad, was the world's largest 3D-IMAX screen, and also the most attended screen in the world.

  • Ramoji 14

    Ramoji Film City located in Hyderabad, holds Guinness World Record as the World's largest film studio.

  • The Forum, Bangalore

    PVR Cinemas is one of the largest cinema chains in India

  • A scene from Joymoti (1935 film)

    First Assamese motion picture, Joymati, filmed in 1935

  • Dena paona 1931

    A scene from Dena Paona, 1931, the first Bengali talkie

  • BACHCHAN Amitabh 03-24x30-2009b

    Amitabh Bachchan has been a popular Bollywood actor for over 45 years.

  • Vigathakumaran

    A still frame from Vigathakumaran

  • Balan 1938

    A promotional notice of Balan

  • ActorMammootty

    Mammooty has won the most number of National Awards in the Best Actor category in the Malayalam industry.

  • Kalidas(1931)

    Kalidas (1931), Tamil cinema's first talkie

  • Actor Kamal Hassan addressing at the inaugural ceremony of the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2013), in Panaji, Goa on November 20, 2013

    Kamal Hassan has the highest number of Academy Award Submissions in India and is one of the greatest versatile actors of all time.

  • Raghupati Venkayya

    Raghupati Venkayya, "father of Telugu cinema"

  • PundalikAd

    Advertisement in The Times of India of 25 May 1912 announcing the screening of the first feature film of India, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne

  • Raja Harishchandra

    A scene from Raja Harishchandra (1913), the first full-length Indian motion picture.

  • Phalke

    Producer-director-screenwriter Dadasaheb Phalke, the "father of Indian cinema".

  • AVM Studios Globe

    AVM Studios in Chennai, India's oldest surviving film studio.

See also

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