Tollywood

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The cinema of Andhra Pradesh (Telugu: తెలుగు సినీపరిశ్రమ) is the Telugu language film industry in India. It holds a record of making the first ever talkie movie in the history of Indian cinema. This film, Bhakta Prahlada, was made in 1931. Telugu cinema is popularly known as Tollywood, as an analog to the English-language industry of Hollywood. It is the second largest cinema industry after Bollywood in production value and is first in terms of movies made in a year.
The state of Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of cinema halls in India.

The Telugu cinema industry is based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Chennai used to hub for both Tamil, Telugu cinema until the early 1990’s, due to its importance and significance as yesteryear’s capital of South India (Madras state0. Still many Telugu cinemas are shot in the traditional studios such as AVM.Now Hyderabad is the mordern hub of telugu film industry. while Chennai remais to be the Home of Tamil flim industry. The Telugu film industry produces the most films every year in India, with about 275 films produced in 2008.[1] Popular movies tend to open during the three festive/holiday seasons of the region: Sankranthi, Ugadi, and Dussera. In 2004, total revenue for the Sankranthi season was around Rs. 1.5 billion (US$37 million, as of 17 July 2007) greater than that of the Bollywood industry. There are number of television channels (such as Maa, Gemini, Eenadu, ZEE TELUGU, Teja TV ,TV9 , TV5 etc.,) dedicated exclusively to feature programs related to Telugu movies.
Currently, about 150 Telugu films are released every year with approximately 3 productions every week. Just like any other cinema industry, the Telugu film industry produces all genres of cinema. In 2005, the annual turnover reached Rs. 2,550 million ticket sales of 160 crores. Today Telugu films are distributed to various theatres around the world in countries such as the USA, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, and Australia. In the USA Telugu cinema has a huge revenue in the form of NRI's.
 

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