
Indian Cinema and Language
Within Indian cinema, Bollywood is ahead of any regional film industry in terms of fan base. Hindi has made Bollywood a major audience for the Indian film market. Before the COVID pandemic, about 1,500-2,000 films were made in India every year and about 20 years ago, half of these films were in Hindi. Because then the filmmakers had the power and they knew that more people would watch Hindi movies from which they would make money. They made those movies in big cities with beautiful actors and actresses. But how much longer will this continue? Thus, after 2000, regional films began to be remade in Hindi. Films that were already popular were made in Hindi by different directors. But now South Indian films have at least somewhat more fans than Bollywood films. In this case we can talk about t...