The diversity of languages and cultural references in India has encouraged the development of a varied film industry

Indian cinema is often referred to by different names, according
to the various regions and languages!
Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood, Malluwood, Sandalwood,
films in Marâthî, films in Gujarati, films in Punjabi, films in Oriya,
films in Assamais, films in English.

The productions in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu account for 60 % of the total!

"Extravagant India!" ! will give equal weighting to films from all regions.

India produces more than 1,200 full length feature films year.

* See brief index of Indian cinémas