1. The name "Bollywood" is taken from Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center of the American Film Industry and better understood as Hindi cinema based in India.
2.Raja Harishchandra (1913), by Dadasaheb Phalke, is known as the first silent feature film made in India. In 1937, Ardeshir Irani, of Alam Ara fame, made the first color film in Hindi, Kisan Kanhaiya.
3. Guru Dutt is now regarded as one of the greatest Asian
filmmakers of
all time with Pyaasa
(1957) being featured in Time magazine's "All-TIME"
100 best movies list.
4. Danny Boyle Slumdog
Millionaire (2008), which has won four Golden Globes and eight
Academy Awards, was directly inspired by Bollywood films, and is considered as "homage
to Hindi commercial cinema".
5. The Science
fiction movie Ra.One was made at an immense
budget of 1.35 billion (roughly USD 27 million), making it the most
expensive movie ever produced in Bollywood.
