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Bolly, Kolly, Molly.....what?

I have a pet peeve. Yes, unbelievable, but true. It's about the names that the Indian movie industry have come up with for themselves in the recent years. I hope some of you feel the same way, because i'm liberally including you all in the "we" here....

It all started with Bollywood. Like the storyline of our Hindi movies, shamelessly copied after their global counterpart - Hollywood. We gritted our teeth, but thought - why not? It is not too bad. Bombay-Bollywood. And, the analogy is right there too. Both are the biggest churners of reel, in the world of cinema.

Now, our regional moviemakers had started fuming already. Does this mean they are nomenclature-challenged? Totally made-up word. DO NOT GOOGLE. Anyways, let's look at their names. The term Kollywood was equated with Tamil movies. Supposedly, for the area in which majority of the studios are located in the Chennai metro. We're getting a little antsy now. Do we have to go this far?

Next, came the Telugu movie moghuls who quickly came up with "Tollywood" which is going a little tangential here, because this time "T" is for Telugu and not an area like the other two. Now, we're far too unhappy. It's a bit too much, we point out. But, "we" don't have a choice, don't we? No one bothered to ask us or is going to listen to us anyway, so, we might as well shut up and watch this whole show. Or raise it in an inane blog like this one. So, please, a last one-Mollywood for Malayalam movies.

And, just when i had enough with this torture, imagine, someone sneaked me a surprise recently, with a Lollywood. That's for Pakistani movies, for all those of you who are in the dark ages.

But, my heart goes out for the Kannada movie makers though. They're out of this rat race and left with nothing. Why? Because "K" should have been given to them but was taken by the Tamils, who should have taken the "T", which was already taken by the Telugus. And, the telugu industry should have taken - oh, sorry, "T" problem again. I'll have to start all over.

Well, never mind. This is way too bizarre anyway. I think my pet peeve has to be buried deep inside, never to be found again - ever.

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