Wood for the trees

Hollywood has given rise to the term Bollywood, since the Hindi film industry is Bombay based. In Hollywood, they give out Oscars for best acting, best direction and so forth. But in Bollywood, they don8217;t give out Boscars. Since Bombay is now Mumbai, why has it not become Mollywood? Boscars would then be Moscars, except that Boscars don8217;t exist in the first place. Bollywood is not the only clone. In Calcutta, where movies are made in the Tollygunge area, it8217;s called Tollywood. But using the 8216;C8217; in Calcutta, they should have called it Collywood, for that would have left the 8216;T8217; for the Telugu film industry in Hyderabad. After all, these Hyderabad based films cannot christen themselves 8216;H8217;ollywood. That would have been a bit too obvious.

The Tamil filmwallas got into the act and pilfered Tollywood. Bengalis in Tollygunge please note. Being in Chennai, they should have opted for Chollywood and give out Choskars. Malayalam films are aplenty, too, so they can be Mollywood. They can8217;t take the 8216;T8217; from Trivandrum because Tollywood is already in Chollywood. We are still left with the Punjabis go ahead Pollywood, bestow Poscars, and Shotgun Sinha8217;s Bihar, making Bhojpuri films. Can8217;t give them Bollywood, but they can opt for Bhollywood, and Bhoskars for the Biharis. The field is still open: films can be Jhollywood prize: Jhoskar in Jharkhand. Oh golly! Gujjus can have Gollywood. Pakistan has Lollywood in Lahore and Tulus in coastal Karnataka have Tuluwood. Dogri films in Jammu can be Jollywood. That would be a jolly option, no? Kollywood in Karnataka for Kannada movies was not taken because we in Bangalore call it Sandalwood.