Bollywood is the
sobriquet for the
Hindi language film industry, based in
Mumbai, India. The term is often incorrectly used as
synecdoche to refer to the whole of
Indian cinema; however, it is only a part of the large
Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in many languages.
Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world.
It is more formally referred to as
Hindi cinema.
