Thursday, June 26, 2008

****wood

So, it was lunch time on my last day at Decidyn(This is where i spent my 3 month long vacation doing training). Everyday we start talking about some random stuff. Sometimes, its about politics, sometimes about government, college life, different places, aarushi murder case, or whatever that comes to some crazy guy's mind in that room.

Well, today it was about how people try to copy others. Actually how the Hindi film industry took their name from Hollywood and called themselves Bollywood.
Now, that doesn't end there. After this, the Telugu film industry called themselves Tollywood and then the Tamil film industry called themselves Kollywood.
And just when you think the names can't get anymore weirder, the Kannada film industry calls themselves sandalwood.

I just couldn't believe this. Thats totally ridiculous. So, i opened wikipedia and tried to find out if there are some more film industries which have "-ollywood"ish names and found out this....

Mollywood -- Malayalam film industry
Tollywood -- even the Bengali film industry has the same name
Punjwood -- Punjabi film industry
Chinawood -- Some arbit Chinese studio which apparently is the largest in china.
Choliwood -- Peruvian film industry
Nollywood -- Nigerian film industry

and my favorites

Dollywood -- Bangladesh film industry
Lollywood -- Pakistan film industry

I just want to say if anybody has any plans of starting a film industry, pick your letter soon or else you wont be left anything.

1 comment:

Layfield said...

follywood? oollywood? vollywood? :P