India Says: Booray for Bollywood!

India’s film industry is creeping up on a momentous date. When the calendar strikes April 21, 2013, it wiil officially mark the 100th anniversary of what is now the world’s largest movie industry.

If there’s anything by then that key members of the country’s film business hope for, it’s that they will no longer be lumped under a certain Tinseltown-derived moniker coined in the 1970s. Per a recent article in the Hindustan Times titled “Stop Calling Us Bollywood:”

It’s not a Hollywood rip-off, and not about dancing around trees anymore.

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