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Bollywood

Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Bollywood
Parminder Sarwara · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Bollywood is a film genre[1]. Bollywood ranks in the top 7% of film genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,849 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: cinema by country or region[3]
  • Named after: Mumbai[4], Hollywood[5]
  • Headquarters location: Mumbai[6]
  • Subclass of: cinema of India[7]
  • Commons category: Bollywood[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hindi cinema[9]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Hindi cinema[10]
  • Different from: Marathi cinema[11]
  • Language used: Hindi[12], Urdu[13], Hindustani[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]

Why It Matters

Bollywood has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Bollywood is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Barfi! film genre Mumbai Sunny Deol

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · CommonsDelinker bot · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Film City, Mumbai.jpg
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