Bhaskar Cinemas
The cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India.[8] Cinema is immensely popular in India. Every year more than 1800 films get produced collectively in various languages in India.[9][10][11] Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Kochi, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar-Cuttack and Guwahati are the major centres of film production in India.[details 1] As of 2013, India ranked first in terms of annual film output, followed by Nigeria,[10][31] Hollywood and China.[32] In 2012, India produced 1,602 feature films.[10] The Indian film industry reached overall revenues of $1.86 billion (₹93 billion) in 2011. In 2015, India had a total box office gross of US$2.1 billion,[6][33] the third largest in the world. In 2011, Indian cinema sold over 3.5 billion tickets worldwide, 900,000 more than Hollywood.
The overall revenue of Indian cinema reached US$2.7 billion in 2019.[34] The industry is segmented by language. In 2019, the Hindi film industry represented 44% of box office revenue followed by the Telugu film industry and Tamil film industry representing 13% of the box office revenue each and Malayalam film industry and Kannada film industry representing 5% each – the top 5 film industries of the nation in terms of revenue as of 2019.[35] Other prominent film industries include Bengali, Marathi and Punjabi cinemas. By 2020, the combined box office revenue of regional film industries has surpassed the box office revenue of Hindi film industry with over 47% of Indian box office revenue, while Hindi cinema had represented 40% of Indian box office revenue.[34] Bengali cinema was largely associated with the parallel cinema movement, in contrast to the masala films more prominent in Bollywood and Southern films at the time.
