Do you know why the word ‘wood’ is used behind the names Bollywood, Hollywood and Tollywood. Who started this name and who has brought it forward till now?
Today it has been more than 100 years since Indian cinema started. Many films are made one after another, which gets popularity all over the world. The use of the word wood in the film world has a very old history, where Hollywood was first introduced in America.
Actually, Hollywood is a district located in Los Angeles, America. In the name of this, H.J. Whitley named the film industry ‘Hollywood’. He is known as the father of Hollywood. Hollywood was a small community in 1870, incorporated as a municipality in 1903, and was officially annexed into the City of Los Angeles in 1910.
Los Angeles grew with time and filmmakers made many great films. After which the name Hollywood became famous all over the world. After which it was named Hollywood because English films were made.
This place is the heart of the entertainment industry, including many historic studios. So, we can say that this is a city where stories are created, stories that come alive on the screen and give the audience a magical experience.
Bengali film industry is located in a place called Tollygunge in Kolkata. The term ‘Tollywood’ was coined by the magazine in the early 1930s for the Bengali film industry, much like Hollywood.
The name Bollywood was changed from the ‘H’ of Hollywood to ‘B’, which is the first letter of Bombay. It became popular in the 1970s, when the Hindi film industry became the largest in the world in terms of the number of films produced, overtaking Hollywood.
Ollywood is used in Odisha, Mollywood in Kerala for Malayalam film industry, Kollywood for Tamil cinema. The name Sollywood was kept for Sindhi film industry and Lollywood for Punjabi films.
The term Dhallywood or Dhallywood is used for the Bangladeshi film industry based in Dhaka city. Carrywood is the name used for the Pakistani film industry based in the city of Karachi.