India is a major regional center for cinema. The Indian film industry is the largest in the world producing over 1200 movies each year.The industry is supported mainly by a vast film-going Indian public, though Indian films have been gaining increasing popularity in the rest of the world notably in countries with large numbers of emigrant Indians. India is a large country where many languages are spoken. Each of the larger languages supports its own film industry.

Cinema first came to India in 1896, when the Lumiere Brothers' Cinematographe showed six short films in the Watson Hotel. Three years later Harishchandra Bhatvadekar shot and exhibited two short films. Following that, there were several attempts to film staged plays and imported films were shown in the first decade of the 20th century. The first indigenous silent feature film was Raja Harishchandra, released in 1913 and directed by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, nicknamed "Dadasaheb," who is considered the father of Indian film.

Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. The name is a combination of Bombay, the old name of Mumbai, and Hollywood, the center of the United States film industry. Though some people criticize the name .

India is a large country where many languages are spoken. Each of the larger languages supports its own film industry, like Urdu or Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam. The Tamil film industry, is based in the Kodambakkam area of Chennai, South India.

The Indian screen magazine Filmfare started the first Filmfare Awards in 1953. These awards were to be Bollywood's version of the Academy Awards. Magazine readers submit their votes and the awards are presented at a glamorous, star-studded ceremony. Like the Oscars, they are frequently accused of bias towards commercial success rather than merit.

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