The origin of Bollywood is a very interesting concept. Who created the term and how did it gain its popularity around the world ? Well, according to "The Origin of Bollywood", by Sabeen, "Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindustani language film industry in India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema.The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry." According to the article, a women by the name of Bevinda Collaco first coined the term "Bollywood". From the text, "I got into film journalism by pure accident and knew nothing about Hindi films… I was given a studio beat to do. I was not happy with the name of the column Studio Roundup and thought of `Flipping around Follywood’, but it sounded too harsh. I settled for `On the Bollywood Beat’ instead" (Origin Bolly.). As interesting as it is to know how the famous film industry in India got its name, its really fascinating to understand how ideas become cemented into an area of interest, and then is built up upon to become something that no one would ever imagine later on. I found it interesting that the term "Bollywood" is now commonly used in a lot of places, it even has a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary. How cool is that ?
Works Cited for Quarter 3 Blog #9 :
"Origin of Bollywood". Sabeen. April 15, 2007 4:03 PM. Desi Galaxy. 3/02/2009. http://desi-galaxy.sabza.org/2007/04/15/origin-of-bollywood/
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