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Lollywood, the Glossary

Lollywood is Pakistan's film industry, which has served as the base for both Urdu- and Punjabi-language film production.^[1]

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Cinema of Pakistan
Cinema of Punjab
Film production districts
Punjabi language in Pakistan

ARY Films

ARY Films (اے آر وائی فلمز) is a film distribution and production company in Pakistan, part of ARY Digital Network.

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Blend word

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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The Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC; مرکزی ہیئت برائے ضوابطِ فلم) is a film censorship board and rating system body under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting for the Government of Pakistan.

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Cinema of India

The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.

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Cinema of Pakistan

The film industry of Pakistan, consisting of motion pictures, has had a large effect on Pakistani society and culture since the nation's independence.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Dev Anand

Dev Anand (born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011) was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema.

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Dilip Kumar

Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021) was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema.

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Eveready Pictures

Eveready Pictures is a Pakistani film and television production and distribution company.

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Geo Films

Geo Films is a film production and distribution company owned by Geo Television Network based in Karachi, Pakistan.

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Hindi cinema

Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. Lollywood and Hindi cinema are film production districts.

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Hindustani language

Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).

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Hum Films

Hum Films is a film production and distribution company based in Karachi, Pakistan, working under the Hum Network Limited.

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Independence Day (Pakistan)

Independence Day (|translit.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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K. L. Saigal

Kundan Lal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal (11 April 1904 – 18 January 1947), was an Indian singer and actor who worked in Hindi cinema, which was centred in Calcutta (Kolkata) during Saigal's time, but is currently based in Bombay (Mumbai).

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Karachi

Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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List of films banned in Pakistan

Pakistan started banning films in 1962, with restrictions tightened in 1979 when Muhammad Zia ul-Haq implemented an Islamization agenda and an even stricter censorship code.

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List of highest-grossing films in Pakistan

The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in Pakistan, with gross revenue in Pakistani rupees.

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List of Pakistani animated films

This is a list of animated films produced in Pakistan.

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List of Urdu films

A list of Urdu-language films in year order.

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Lists of Pakistani films

The following pages for each decade list films produced in Pakistan by year of release.

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Lists of Pakistani films by language

The following pages indicate list of films produced in Pakistan by languages.

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Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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Mohammed Rafi

Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer.

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Momina Duraid

Momina Duraid (مُومِنہ دُرید) is a Pakistani director and producer.

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Noor Jehan

Noor Jehan, sometimes spelled NoorjehanAshish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, British Film Institute, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002, pp.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Television Corporation

Pakistan Television Corporation (پاکستان ٹیلی وژن نیٹ ورک; reporting name: PTV) is the Pakistani state-owned broadcaster founded by the Government of Pakistan, operating under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Prithviraj Kapoor

Prithviraj Kapoor (born Prithvinath Kapoor; 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was an Indian actor who is also considered to be one of the founding figures of Hindi cinema.

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Punjabi language

Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sage Publishing

Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.

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Shamshad Begum

Shamshad Begum (Hindi: शमशाद बेगम, IAST: Śamśād Bēgam; 14 April 1919 – 23 April 2013) was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.

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Six Sigma Plus

Six Sigma Plus is a Pakistani independent film and television production company.

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South Asian cinema

South Asian cinema refers to the cinema of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.

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Urdu 1

Urdu 1 (اُردُو ١) is a 24-hour Urdu language television network, owned by Alliance Media FZ LLC, which is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The channel's transmission became available in Pakistan on 12 June 2012, with regular transmission beginning 23 June 2012. The channel is best-known for its Turkish drama (Urdu-dubbed) Ishq-e-Mamnu which has millions of viewership on its first episode.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollywood

Also known as Cinema in Lahore, Cinema of Lahore, Cinema of Punjab (Pakistan), Cinema of Punjab, Pakistan, Film industry in Lahore, Lahore cinema, Lahori cinema, Pakistani Punjabi cinema, Pakistani Punjabi film, Pakistani Punjabi films, Punjabi cinema (Pakistan).

Lollywood, the Glossary

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See also

Cinema of Pakistan

Cinema of Punjab

Film production districts

Punjabi language in Pakistan

References