• Pronounced as Bau-lee-wood

• Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

• The term "Bollywood" is inspired from Hollywood and has origins in the 1970s, when India overtook America as the world's largest film producer.

Bollywood serves nearly half of the world population ranging from South Asian countries to middle east, Russia and Eastern Europe, African countries, U.K., Australia and the list goes on.

According to a survey by New York times, Shahrukh Khan, superstar of Bollywood has a fanbase of about 3.6 billion people which is more than Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis combined together.

The Indian film industry employs more than six million people.

More than 70,000 Indian films have been made since the advent of the talkies in 1931.

Worldwide, Bollywood has 3.6 billion fans, according to the New York Times

It contributes more than £200m to the UK's economy each year.

In 2010 the Indian entertainment and media industry is expected to be worth almost $20bn

Bollywood movies are full of songs and dance.

Unlike the average Hollywood movie which is around an hour and a half to 2 hours, a typical Hindi Bollywood movie is almost twice as long at 3hours minimum. The main plot or storyline makes up for half the length of the movie or less, while the rest is filled with so called 'entertainment' in the form of song and dance,