Let's Talk about the history and growth of Bollywood Bollywood is the name given to Hindi film industry based in Mumbai, which Jackson (2004) relates to a city symbolizing urban cosmopolitanism, similar to Washington DC and New York in the US. Bollywood is positioned higher as the biggest film industry worldwide in terms of the employees and the films produced. On December 28, 1895, the Lumiere brothers Louis and Auguste opened a theatre, situated in sale au Grand Cafe at 14-Boulevard des Capucines . This was the world’s first commercial enterprise to screen their films which they called ‘Cinematographe’. In India, the first person to venture into commercialisation of this aspect of entertainment was Dada Saheb Phalke, known as the father of the Indian Cinema. First mythological film of Dada Saheb Phalke (Still from Youtube.com) Indian cinema emerged in the year 1913, the year to which most retrospectives trace the first Indian film – the mythological of Phalke (Sriniva...