Pick up a map of Maharashtra. Look for Bollywood; the place where Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan and other big film stars live and work.
You will not find it, of course. Bollywood is simply a pejorative term used for the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry; a sort of a lowly cousin of Hollywood. Film industries in other parts of India are referred to in similarly disparaging terms — Tollywood for the Telugu film industry and Kollywood for Tamil. Some of the best within the industry, including Bachchan and Shabana Azmi, actively discourage the use of these terms. They
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