Regional cinema is also getting famous

Bollywood may be interesting word for the Indian Film industry, but different themes and corporate funding are signing a rebirth for regional cinema. The Mumbai film industry is a face of commercial Indian cinema, but films in other languages like Marathi, Punjabi and Bengali are also increasing there audience with the improvement in the themes.


Mahesh Manjerekar, has made Marathi movie about the plight of mill worker in Mumbai, it is a bit part of movie Slumdog Millionare.

Corporate studios like Eros Internatgional and Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big Pictures are looking to capture South India films, which is getting popularity like Bollywood industry these days.

This year Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category was Marathi film ‘Harishchandrachi Factory". This movie was done by UTV Motion pictures, it is one of the biggest production house in India.