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India makes more films than any other country

The industry releases well over 1,500 features a year in many languages

India produces more feature films each year than any other country, well over 1,500, in more than twenty languages. Hindi-language Bollywood is the best-known part, but Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali and other regional industries are also very large.

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UNESCO

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