Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based film industry in India. Though some purists deplore the name, it seems likely to persist and even has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Bollywood is also commonly referred to as "Hindi cinema", even though frequent use of poetic Urdu words is fairly common. There has been a growing presence of English in dialogues and songs as well. It is not uncommon to see movies which feature dialogues with English words and phrases, even whole sentences. A few movies are also made in two or even three languages (either using subtitles, or several soundtracks).

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