Considering the popularity of the Hindi Film Industry globally, the tinsel town believes that a single term 'Bollywood' cannot describe the entire industry. Besides, they even comprehended, there isn't any need to dub the term 'Hollywood'.
Recently, during the discussion on Twitter, the 'Wanted' hunk Salman Khan surprised everyone by tagging the term 'Bollywood' as ridiculous. The star even added that he hated this term.
Excerpts from Salman's tweets
Some of the excerpts from Salman's tweets on the micro-blogging site, Twitter are:
“Hate this bloody name , bollywood , koi naam hai kya ? Disgusting.”
“Hollywood se bollywood naam nikla, this is nt the name of our industry. Don't kno whr this ridiculous name has cm frm n got stuck.”
“Bollywood was fr wen mumbai was called bombay toh kya shld it nt b called mumllywood,hw ridiculous is it.it makes us look like chamchas.”
“1 of the 1 st film production was called bombay talkie's so call it that or mumbai tal... Or indian cinema,call it any thing but nt boll..”
Later, when Salman got a tweet from one of his fans, who suggested the name HiFi (Hindi Film Industry), he immediately tweeted it and even declared it as a “cool name”.
Surprisingly, Riteish Deshmukh supported Salman's conception and tweeted, “I totally love the term HI-FI for hindi film industry - instead of BOLLYWOOD.”
Other actors who hate 'Bollywood'
Strangely, despite the stars hatred and the term's significance, 'Bollywood' was added in the Oxford dictionary in 2003.
Some of the well-known bigwigs who do not like the term 'Bollywood' are Amitabh Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Dino Morea, and Shilpa Shetty.
Few years ago, when Piggy Chops was asked about her conception, she replied, “I don’t like the term Bollywood. Hindi film industry sounds so much more sensible and sensitive.”
Even Dino Morea had supported her opinions and added, “I don’t think we need to copy Hollywood. It should just be the Indian film industry, sounds so much better.”
While Shilpa Shetty said, “Don’t call it Bollywood, I would kill you if you do that. It’s like calling French cinema Follywood.”
If this is the case, then why the term 'Bollywood' is being used judiciously in the industry.
What's your take on this?
