"bombay" and "hollywood"
hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as bollywood, and formerly known as bombay cinema, is the indian hindi-language film industry, based in mumbai (formerly bombay), maharashtra, india. the term being a portmanteau of "bombay" and "hollywood". as india is a multi-lingual society with variety of languages spoken by its residents, multiple language films are churned out in their native languages by film industries such as hindi-language film industry (popularly known to world as bollywood), tamil film industry (kollywood), telugu film industry ('tollywood') and others, together combined they form the massive indian cinema , the largest film industry in the world.