बॉलिवुड हे नाव मुंबईचे इंग्रजी नाव "बॉम्बे" आणि अमेरिकेतील हॉलिवूड या शहराच्या नावांचे मिश्रण आहे. हॉलिवूड अमेरिकेतील चित्रपटव्यवसायाचे केंद्र समजले जाते.

However, unlike Hollywood, Bollywood does not exist as a physical place. Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the "ऑक्सफर्ड इंग्लिश डिक्शनरी".

The term "Bollywood" has origins in the 1970s, when India overtook America as the world's largest film producer. Credit for the term has been claimed by several different people, including the lyricist, filmmaker and scholar Amit Khanna, and the journalist Bevinda Collaco.

The naming scheme for "Bollywood" was inspired by "Tollywood", the name that was used to refer to the cinema of West Bengal. Dating back to 1932, "Tollywood" was the earliest Hollywood-inspired name, referring to the Bengali film industry based in Tollygunge, which rhymed with "Hollywood" and was the center of the cinema of India at the time. The name "Bollywood" later arose as the Bombay-based film industry overtook the one in Tollygunge as the center of the Indian film industry.

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