Man Sitting In Front Of His House Covered With Bollywoods Posters, Mysore, India, 2008 (photo)

This man was sitting in front of his house, decorated with posters of Bollywood, the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema, the expression designates only a part of the Indian film industry; Bollywood, largest film producer in India is also one of the largest centre of film production in the world, producing annually around 1000 to 1200 films (much more than Hollywood); 15 million Indians go to the movies on a daily basis, there are 12 000 movie theatres, more than 750 newspapers speaking about Bollywood stars, and Bollywood gives jobs to more than 2 million people