KBC Offline Quiz (September 9, 2021): What is the Telugu movie industry known as? 

Bollywood

Tollywood

Hollywood

Mollywood

Answer: Tollywood

Telugu cinema, commonly referred to as Tollywood, is dedicated to the production of pictures in the Telugu language. Telugu is widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Telugu cinema is based in Film Nagar, Hyderabad, India. The term Tollywood is a mixture of the words Telugu and Hollywood.

Filmmaker Ragupathi Venkaiah, since 1909, was involved in producing short films and travelling to different regions in Asia to promote film work. He is often referred to as the father of Telugu cinema.

The East India Film Company in 1933 produced its first Indian film, Savitri in Telugu. It was based on a popular stage play by Mylavaram Bala Bharathi Samajam and directed by the father of the “Telugu theatre Movement” Chittajallu Pullaiah. It has actors Vemuri Gaggaiah and Dasari Ramathilakam in it.

The film had a budget of an estimated $1 million in Calcutta and had received an honorary diploma at the Venice International Film Festival.

Pathala Bhairavi (1951) was the only South Indian film screened at the first India International Film Festival. Pathala Bhairavi (1951), Malliswari (1951), Devadasu (1953), Mayabazar (1957), Nartanasala (1963), Maro Charitra (1978), Maa Bhoomi (1979), Sankarabharanam (1980), Sagara Sangamam (1983), and Siva (1989), have been showcased among CNN-IBN’s 100 Greatest Indian Films of All Time.

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