Bollywood..... Indian films..... Mira Nair

Bollywood, is the informal term often used for Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. Bollywood is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry.

Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in the world.

The name is a mix of Bombay and Hollywood, the center of the North American film industry.

Indian Cinema, The Indian film industry is the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales and number of films produced annually (877 feature films and 1177 short films were released in the year 2003).

Some important Indian films: Monsoon Wedding, Gandhi, Gandhi, English August, Bollywood Calling, Hyderabad Blues, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Salaam Bombay, A Train to Pakistan, A Passage to India.

Mira Nair, born October 15, 1957 at Rourkela, India. She is an India-born, New-York based fim director. She was educated at Delhi university and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for an Oscar.

She won many awards by "Mississippi Masala", and "Salaam Bombay" and "My Own country"."Monsoon Wedding" won a golden globe nomination for Best Foreing Language film.