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The Hindi film industry, based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), is the largest branch of Indian cinema. Hindi film Industry is often called `Bollywood' (a blending of Hollywood and Bombay). The word "Bollywood" is sometimes applied to Indian cinema as a whole, especially outside South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, but this usage is incorrect. Bollywood films are mostly musicals, and are expected to contain catchy music in the form of song-and-dance ...
The novels in India is conventionally thought to have emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century. The year of the rebellion, 1857, also saw the publication of Alaler Gharer Dulal, upon which Bankimchandra Chatterji, who himself holds a lofty place in the development of the novel in India, lavished praise as a "beautiful written" work. The contemporary assessment of the merits of this wok has been more restrained, but nonetheless Alaler Gharer Dulal ...