Are you ready to learn about an amazing culture through its  movies? Welcome to Good Golly! It's Bolly! 

Bollywood is perhaps the most well-known of the eleven language-dependent film industries of India. "Bollywood" refers specifically to movies made in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay thus the Bollywood moniker). In recent years, the south Indian movie industries of Telugu and Tamil Nadu are producing more movies than Bollywood so the competition is on! In fact, the highest grossing Indian film world-wide at the time of its release was Baahubali 2: The Conclusion––a Telugu movie! This website is the on-going culmination of my seven years of voluntarily leading courses on Indian Cinema mainly at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT, as well as Oasis Learning Adventure and the Chautauqua Institute. New opportunities have come my way including blogging for the George Eastman Museum as my comprehension increases and my fascination continues into a world of culture, color and complexity previously unknown to me.  

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