List of Bollywood actresses

Bollywood:Bollywood does not exist as a physical place. Though
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for thesome deplore the name, arguingthat it makes the
Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai,industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood,it has its
Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly usedownentry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a partThe term "Bollywood" has origins in the 1970s, when
of the total Indian film industry, which includes severalIndia overtook America as the world's largest film
regional film industries sorted by language.Bollywood isproducer. Credit for the term has been claimed by
the largest film producer in India and one of the largestseveral different people, including the lyricist, filmmaker
centers of film production in the world.and scholar Amit Khanna,and the journalist Bevinda
Bollywood is formally referred to as HindiCollaco.The naming scheme for "Bollywood" was
cinema,though frequent use of poetic Urdu words isinspired by "Tollywood", the name that was used to
fairly common. There has been a growing presence ofrefer to the cinema of West Bengal. Dating back to
Indian English in dialogue and songs as well. It is1932, "Tollywood" was the earliest Hollywood-inspired
common to see films that feature dialogue with Englishname, referring to the Bengali film industry based in
words phrases, or even whole sentences.Tollygunge, which rhymed with "Hollywood" and was
The name "Bollywood" is derived from Bombay (thethe center of the cinema of India at the time. The
former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the centername "Bollywood" later arose as the Bombay-based
of the American film industry.However, unlikefilm industry overtook the one in Tollygunge as the
Hollywood,center of the Indian film industry.