Why the word 'Wood' is used in all film Industries???
In many countries including india, around 5 lakh films are made every year in different languages. The film industry is one of the largest businesses in the world and provides employment to millions of people. Every country has a different way and language to make any film. The word 'Wood' is also used behind the name of Bollywood, hollywood to kannada cinema's Sandalwood, telugu cinema's tollywood and tamil cinema's Kollywood. Do you know when and how it started?
Before this, let us know from where did it first start?
The use of the word 'wood' at the end of the film industry started in America. First of all HJ It was used by Whitley (H.J. Whitley). Whitley is also called the father of hollywood film industry.
How did the name 'Hollywood' come about?
Actually, hollywood is a district located in the US city of Los Angeles. In the name of H.J. Whitley named the American film industry 'Hollywood'.
How did 'Wood' reach India?
Till that time the film industry in india was known as 'Hindi Film Industry'. It is said that the credit for calling it 'Bollywood' should be given to the cinema of Bengal. Actually, in 1930, the bengali film industry of calcutta used to be in an area named 'Tollygunge'. While writing about this, for the first time a magazine named junior Statesman used the word 'Tollywood'. Although now it is used for telugu cinema.
At the same time, mumbai was called 'Bombay' at that time. Due to bombay (Mumbai) being the heartland of cinema, 'H' was dropped from 'B' in hollywood and by the 70s it came to be known as 'Bollywood' worldwide. Similarly, tamil film industry of india got the name of 'Kollywood', telugu film industry as 'Tollywood' and kannada film industry as 'Sandalwood'.
