Indian cinema

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Indian cinema is the diverse and prolific film industry of India, encompassing multiple regional and language-based film sectors and producing some of the world's highest-volume and most influential movies.

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Label Occurrences
Indian cinema canonical 22
Indian film industry 11
Cinema of India 1

Statements (78)

Predicate Object
instanceOf film certification board
film director
film festival
film industry
alsoKnownAs Indian film industry
award Filmfare Award
surface form: Filmfare Awards

IIFA Awards
National Film Award
surface form: National Film Awards
commonElement family-centric narratives
intermission structure
song-and-dance sequences
country India
culturalImpact major influence on Indian popular culture
popularizes Hindi and other Indian languages globally
shapes fashion trends in India
digitalShift adoption of digital filmmaking
director Dadasaheb Phalke
distributionChannel OTT platforms
multiplexes
single-screen theatres
distributionMarket Africa
Middle East
South Asia
Southeast Asia
diaspora markets
economicImpact significant contributor to Indian economy
era Golden Age of Hindi cinema
surface form: Golden Age of Indian cinema

silent film era
talkies era
export remakes in other countries
soundtracks
festival International Film Festival of India
firstFeatureFilm Raja Harishchandra
goldenAgeApproxEnd 1960s
goldenAgeApproxStart 1950s
governingBody Central Board of Film Certification
influencedBy Hollywood
Indian classical music
Indian theatre
classical Indian dance
language Assamese
Bengali
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Konkani
Malayalam
Marathi language
surface form: Marathi

Odia
Punjabi
Tamil
Telugu
Tulu
majorCity Bengaluru
Chennai
Hyderabad
Kochi
Calcutta
surface form: Kolkata

Mumbai
notableFor father of Indian cinema
notableSubindustry Bengali cinema
Bollywood cinema
surface form: Bollywood

Tamil cinema
surface form: Kollywood (Tamil cinema)

Mollywood (Malayalam cinema)
Sandalwood (Kannada cinema)
Tollywood film industry
surface form: Tollywood (Telugu cinema)
productionVolumeRanking among highest in the world
startYear 1913
theme crime and underworld
mythology
patriotism
romance
social issues
typicalGenre action film
masala film
melodrama
musical film
romantic drama

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Punjabi cinema partOf Indian cinema
Lata Mangeshkar fieldOfWork Indian cinema
Bollywood cinema partOf Indian cinema
Tollywood film industry partOf Indian cinema
Tamil cinema partOf Indian cinema
Suchitra Sen industry Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
Pakistani cinema influencedBy Indian cinema
Queen of Melody appliedInContext Indian cinema
Om Puri fieldOfWork Indian cinema
Marathi cinema partOf Indian cinema
Asha Bhosle activeIn Indian cinema
Suresh Productions partOf Indian cinema
National Film Award for Best Cinematography industry Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
National Film Award for Best Editing industry Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
National Film Award for Best Film on Urban Issues domain Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Cinema of India
Rajinikanth industry Indian cinema
Seeman industry Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
Jyothika industry Indian cinema
Trisha industry Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
Ethiopian film industry influencedBy Indian cinema
A. S. Dileep Kumar activeIn Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
Kapoor (Kapur) associatedWith Indian cinema
subject surface form: Kapoor
Nigerian films influencedBy Indian cinema
Roshan Seth activeIn Indian cinema
Sunny Pawar partOf Indian cinema
Chhattisgarhi cinema partOf Indian cinema
Himman Dhamija partOf Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
Amisha Patel participatedIn Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
Junaid Khan industry Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
Kumar Shahani activeIn Indian cinema
Sriram Raghavan activeIn Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry
Ravi Basrur industry Indian cinema
this entity surface form: Indian film industry