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Cinema of West Bengal

The cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood, refers to the Bengali language film industry based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Notable for producing critically acclaimed art films, the West Bengal film industry was historically an important center of Indian film production but has decreased in size relative to other regional industries like Bollywood. However, films from West Bengal, especially those of Satyajit Ray, gained global recognition and influenced filmmakers worldwide.

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Cinema of West Bengal

The cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood, refers to the Bengali language film industry based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Notable for producing critically acclaimed art films, the West Bengal film industry was historically an important center of Indian film production but has decreased in size relative to other regional industries like Bollywood. However, films from West Bengal, especially those of Satyajit Ray, gained global recognition and influenced filmmakers worldwide.

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Not to be confused with Telugu Cinema also called Tollywood.

This article is about Tollywood. For Bengali cinema in Bangladesh, see Cinema of Bangladesh.

Cinema of West Bengal

West Bengal Film Center in Kolkata

No. of screens Approx. 450 in the state of West Bengal[1]

Main distributors SVF

Eskay Movies
Eros International

Surinder Films

Grassroot Entertainment

Dev Entertainment Ventures

Windows Production

Reliance Entertainment

Produced feature films[2]

Total 163
Gross box office (2013)[3]

National films India: ₹100 crore (US$14 million)

Indian cinema

 Assamese (Jollywood)

 Badaga

 Bengali (Tollywood)

 Bhojpuri

 Bihari

 Bodo

 Chakma

 Chhattisgarhi

 Deccani

 Dogri

 English

 Gujarati

 Haryanvi

 Hindi (Bollywood)

 Jharkhand

 Kashmiri

 Kannada (Sandalwood)

 Khasi
 Khortha

 Konkani

 Kutchi

 Malayalam (Mollywood)

 Marathi

 Meitei

 Nagpuri

 Odia (Ollywood)

 Punjabi

 Rajasthani

 Sambalpuri
 Sanskrit

 Santali

 Sindhi

 Tamil (Kollywood)

 Telugu (Tollywood)

 Tulu

The cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood, refers to the Indian Bengali language film
industry based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The origins of the nickname
Tollywood, a portmanteau of the words Tollygunge and Hollywood, dates back to 1932.[4] It was a
historically important film industry, at one time the centre of Indian film production. [4] The Bengali film
industry is known for producing many of Indian cinema's most critically acclaimed global Parallel
Cinema and art films, with several of its filmmakers gaining prominence at the Indian National Film
Awards as well as international acclaim. Since the late 20th century, the Bengali film industry has
become smaller, overtaken by other regional industries such as Bollywood and South Indian cinema.
Ever since Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955) was awarded Best Human Document at the 1956
Cannes Film Festival, Bengali films frequently appeared in international fora and film festivals for the
next several decades.[5] This allowed Bengali filmmakers to reach a global audience. The most
influential among them was Satyajit Ray, whose films became successful among
European, American and Asian audiences.[6] His work subsequently had a worldwide impact, with
filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese,[7] James Ivory,[8] Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François
Truffaut,[9] Carlos Saura,[10] Isao Takahata,[11] Wes Anderson[12] and Danny Boyle[13] being influenced by
his cinematic style, and many others such as Akira Kurosawa praising his work.[14]
The "youthful coming-of-age dramas that have flooded art houses since the mid-fifties owe a
tremendous debt to the Apu trilogy".[15] Kanchenjungha (1962) introduced a narrative structure that
resembles later hyperlink cinema.[16] Ray's 1967 script for a film to be called The Alien, which was
eventually cancelled, is widely believed to have been the inspiration for Steven
Spielberg's E.T. (1982).[17][18][19] Ira Sachs' Forty Shades of Blue (2005) was a loose remake
of Charulata, and in Gregory Navas My Family (1995), the final scene is duplicated from the final
scene of The World of Apu. Similar references to Ray films are found in recent works such
as Sacred Evil (2006),[20] the Elements trilogy of Deepa Mehta, and in films of Jean-Luc Godard.[21]

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