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According to Wikipedia, the name "Bollywood" is derived from Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.
The term "Bollywood" has origins in the 1970s, when India overtook America as the world's largest film producer.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.
