HOLLYWOOD VS BOLLYWOOD

 Hollywood and Bollywood are two words that describe the billion world cinema industry. Hollywood being the largest in terms of revenue with 90% of total industry revenue to its name, while Bollywood being able to capture only 3% of the industry total . Alternatively, Bollywood leads with over 1000 film productions a year catering to a global audience of 3 billion. Hollywood produces more than 500 movies annually and has nearly 2.6 billion viewers.

The first thought that strikes one’s mind when you hear the word Hollywood is the American film Industry, rather than the district that is situated North West of Downtown Los Angeles in the state of California. Hollywood became famous since the early 1900s for the birth and development of the American Cinema Industry. Today, Hollywood is known as the heart of movie studios with the worlds four largest production houses situated in that area and Beverley Hills, the residential neighborhood of the district, housing the multi million dollar mansions of cinema celebrities.

Bollywood originally a more casual but extensively used name for the Hindi Cinema industry was officially entered in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2007. Unlike Hollywood, Bollywood does not represent an area or a district, the name was extracted from a blend of Bombay, the historic name of Mumbai, the home of Indian Cinema and Hollywood.The origin of the Indian film industry dates back to the 1890’s but the time period after the partition of the subcontinent is the known as the ‘Golden Age’ of Indian Cinema. Which one do you prefer ?