Bollywood's Popular Culture in the South Asian Diaspora The centre of the Indian movie industry is in the Indian city known as Bombay, which has since been renamed Mumbai. Owing to the industrial resemblance with the American movie city Hollywood, the Indian movie industry came to be known as Bollywood. Bollywood is now an industry of massive proportions, and far from simply producing cinema; it is also closely interwoven with industries concerned with music, clothes, magazines, DVDs,
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it or making it an object of disgust. Ruth Vanita’s queer reading of Hindi cinema shows that same-sex male bonding has evidently existed in Hindi films. Mainstream actors singing songs like, “yeh dosti hum nhi chhodenge. Todenge dum magar tera saath na chhodenge” and “yaari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi” are explicitly hinting at the same-sex bond that seems unbreakable. For a long time Bollywood has believed in creating a picture of relationships that exist only in black or white, the concept