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[Keywords] Perhaps it’s worth mentioning here that ”˜Tollywood’, as a name for the Calcutta film industry was in circulation long before anyone had ever heard of Bollywood. The term is a portmanteau, Hollywood and Tollygunge (the area in Calcutta where many film studios were located) packed up into one word. JS magazine used it liberally in the late 60s and early 70s, so it isn’t unlikely that someone thought up ”˜Bollywood’ as a variation on the joke about the same time. Madhava Prasad digs even further, and traces the origin of Tollywood to an American engineer who introduced talkies to India in 1932...

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[nil nisi bonum] Smoke , don't inhale!: And that is why, while farmers in the Andhra heartland starve and their crops wilt for lack of water, the booze flows without fail in the pubs of Hyderabad. That is why, while a 21 year old girl is chased at midnight and killed on the streets of Chennai, in all probability, a Tollywood film unit is recording a similar stunt for the hero to pull off not so very far away. Of course, in reel life, the hero can hold his drink like a man, drive like a maniac and still impress the adoring muse who, coyly, accepts his proposal for marriage, cohabitation, sex etc.

[Bollywood501.com] February 6, 2005: Kaho Naa Pyar Hai and My Introduction to Bollywood: For years I thought KNPH was the best Hindi film ever made, but now after having watched a few other great Bollywood films I realize that it is actually one of many amazing movies produced by the Hindi film industry. KNPH is actually part of an evolution, and has its place as a very important film in the growth of Bollywood. For one, KNPH is one of the pivotal films that captured the hearts of 100,000s of NRI and turned on many Westerners (including myself) to Bollywood. What Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and Taal initiated in creating a powerful diaspora audience, it was KNPH that cemented the deal.

[Georgethomas.blogspot.com] Beware of the Blog: Instead, there's a lame angle straight out of the archives: the rape and murder of a tribal belle (since she has to exude oomph and front-bench sex appeal, she is played by Shweta Menon with the appropriate jhaTakaas and seductive rain song sequence. Director[sic] Vijay Kumar seems to want to assert his FTII roots by using the Vertigo zoom (see also: Good Fellas and Jaws) to introduce Shweta's tribal lass to the voyeuristic audience. Of course, there's the lecherous evil leering sarpanch (deliciously hammed away with pleasure by Kenneth Desai). And instead of Anne Heche's lawyer, we have an awkward lass (Isshita Arun -- what's with the second S?) who has arrived in Bombay from London to do a feature on the jogan tradition (which is the village sarpanch's specious mechanism to provide himself with a steady supply of nubile nymphets from the junior artiste department).

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