What do you get when you take the 'B' from the Indian city of Bombay and exchange it 1) for the 'H' in Hollywood? Bollywood, of course!
Bollywood is the nickname for the Indian film industry. Indian film is 2) new - the first short film was made in 1898 - but 3) these days Bollywood has taken over and become massive! It is the largest film industry in the world, making up to one thousand films a year - twice as many 4) as Hollywood. Sometimes, the films are made so fast that the same actors shoot scenes for several different films on the same set 5) at the same time!
So, 6) there are actually plenty of differences between Bollywood and Hollywood! Firstly, Bollywood films are actually more like musicals, with lots of singing, dancing and colourful costumes. They are usually in the Hindi language and last three 7) to four hours. They can be 8) about family relationships, unusual coincidences or kidnappers and villains, but most often they are classic romantic tales of 'boy meets girl'. In fact, some young people say that they find the storylines a 9) little too predictable.
Bollywood's biggest audience outside India is in Britain, 10) where many Indians went to live about fifty years 11) ago. It's not just Indians who watch the films, though. There have been some popular Bollywood films in English, such 12) as 'Bride and Prejudice' and 'Monsoon Wedding'. There are even Bollywood waxworks at Madame Tussauds!