What language is spoken in Bollywood films?

It started about 100 years ago, and has since been extremely popular in India. The language identified in the most Bollywood films is “Hindustani”, considered to be one label for the language of much of north and central South Asia.
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What language do they speak in Bollywood movies?

Bollywood, a portmanteau of "Hollywood" and "Bombay" (the former name of Mumbai), refers to the Hindi-language sector of India's movie-making industry, still based in Mumbai.
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Are Bollywood movies Hindi or Urdu?

Over 90% of Bollywood movie Dialogues, song's Lyrics and Movie titles are in Urdu language. Take any dialogue from Hindi films. More than 90 per cent of them are in Urdu. Urdu played a crucial role in the growth and development of the Bollywood, especially adding rhyme and lyricism to the Hindi numbers.
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Which language made most Indian movies?

Distribution of films released in India 2019, by language

Hindi films had the highest share among film releases across India with 15 percent in 2019. This was followed by Telugu films at 14 percent. Furthermore, Malayalam, Gujarati, English and Kannada cinema saw the highest growth rate compared to the previous year.
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Is Tollywood bigger than Bollywood?

Tollywood comes in third place, while Bollywood is two steps ahead in the list of the highest-grossing film industry. Bollywood tops it. The reason is there are more Hindi speakers than in Telugu. We all would agree that Tollywood is much more superficial than Bollywood.
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Do they speak Urdu in Bollywood?

In fact, the language of Mumbai films tend to contain a large number of Persian and Arabic words and thus considered to be “Urdu” in a sense. If a movie uses only Hindi or only Urdu, they would lose a large audience, so by utilising Hindustani as the language of the films, Bollywood can capture a wider audience.
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What is called Tollywood?

Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Telugu cinema is based in Film Nagar, a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, India.
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Is hinglish a language?

Hinglish, a portmanteau of Hindi and English, is the macaronic hybrid use of English and languages of the Indian subcontinent, involving code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences. The word Hinglish was first recorded in 1967.
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Why Urdu is used in Bollywood?

India is a multilingual country . so Bollywood has many lyricists who have mastery over their own matra-lingua. So, writers from Urdu zone use Urdu dictions and northern writers specially from j&k or Punjab may use Punjabi phrases frequently to make an impact .
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In which country Bollywood is famous?

In India, Bollywood is often associated with India's national identity.
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Why do Bollywood movies speak Urdu?

While most people outside of India are familiar with Bollywood as the largest producer of Hindi-language films in the world, many would be surprised to learn that the language spoken in these films is not purely Hindi, but rather draws extensively from the vocabulary and literature of another South Asian language ...
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Is Hollywood or Bollywood better?

In terms of the number of movies per year and worldwide audience, Bollywood is clearly bigger, producing 1,000 movies in a typical year watched by a worldwide audience of 3 billion, compared to Hollywood's 500 movies annually watched by 2.6 billion viewers worldwide.
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Is Bollywood a garbage?

Bollywood is not a garbage, rather it is being made garbage. Many producers are producing rubbish movies, knowing no one would see them. Also, it is becoming lineage business. Like if grandfather is in the film industry, the father, the son, the grandson and so on will continue to remain in the industry.
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What is Kollywood and Tollywood?

Tollywood. Bengali film industry in West Bengal, India/Telugu film industry in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. 6. Kollywood. Tamil language film industry, based in Chennai, India./Nepal's film industry.
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Can KGF 2 beat bahubali?

Collecting Rs. 255.05 cr in just seven days of its release, KGF – Chapter 2 has managed to beat the SS Rajamouli directorial Baahubali 2 – The Conclusion which collected Rs. 266.75 cr in 8 days of its release to become the all-time fastest Rs.
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Who is the box office king in India?

Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar are the box office king in India . Salman Khan has the 2nd highest all time box office collection and Akshay Kumar has the highest in terms of total collection . Salman Khan has 10 highest grossers of the year.
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Which is the No 1 flop movie in India?

1. Bombay Velvet, Rs 125 Crores. We are sure that just like us most of you have still not watched this Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma starrer. And we aren't surprised at all, for obvious reasons.
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Which is world's toughest language?

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world. Mandarin Chinese is challenging for a number of reasons.
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Which is sweetest language in India?

Originated from Sanskrit, Bengali has been ranked the sweetest of all languages in the world. It is spoken mainly in parts of east India (West Bengal) and all over Bangladesh.
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Which is toughest language in India?

Malayalam

Google declares Malayalam (the official language of Kerala State) to be the most difficult language in India. When compared to any other language in India, it is both difficult to learn and to pronounce. It may be the world's second most difficult language, behind Chinese.
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