playback singer

en-noun

playback singer (plural playback singers)

(singing, cinematography) A singer whose songs are pre-recorded for use in films, especially Bollywood musicals, where actors lip-sync them.

নেপথ্য গায়ক

singer whose songs are lip-synced by an actor


filmi

(India, music) Music written especially for Bollywood films.


jodi

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *yewg-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *yugtós
Sanskrit युक्त (yukta)
Prakrit 𑀚𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢 (jutta)
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Sanskrit -अयति (-ayati)
Prakrit -𑀏𑀇 (-ei)
Prakrit 𑀚𑁄𑀟𑁂𑀇 (joḍei)
Prakrit 𑀚𑁄𑀟 (joḍa)
Hindi जोड़ी (joṛī)bor.
English jodi
Borrowed from Hindi जोड़ी (joṛī) or Marathi जोडी (joḍī); possibly through Bollywood.

etymon

Just over five years after coming together at the top of the Indian lineup, they already boast among the greatest-ever numbers for an opening partnership in the format. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma, to many, in particular in India, are the ‘Jodi No. 1’ of the 2010s...

2019 January 30, “‘Jodi No. 1’: Dhawan’s Special Post for ‘Partner in Crime’ Rohit”, in The Quint:

For the last seven years, they have been projected as India’s political jodi number one.

2021 May 6, Rajdeep Sardesai, “A political and policy blow to the Centre”, in Hindustan Times :


Tinseltown

(slang, by extension) The film industry of the United States of America

Bollywood is also very commonly known as both tinsel town and B-town, neither of which is listed in the dictionaries.

2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:

(India, slang) The Bollywood movie industry.

(India, slang) The Tollywood movie industry

(India, informal, by restriction) A nickname for Film Nagar.; A neighbourhood of Hyderabad, Telangana, India


bollywoodiano

it-adj

bollywoodiano (feminine bollywoodiana, masculine plural bollywoodiani, feminine plural bollywoodiane)

bollywoodiana (feminine)
bollywoodiani (masculine plural)
bollywoodiane (feminine plural)


Bollywoodian

en-adj

Bollywoodian (comparative more Bollywoodian, superlative most Bollywoodian)

more Bollywoodian (comparative)
most Bollywoodian (superlative)


फ़िल्मी हिंदी

hi-proper noun

फ़िल्मी हिंदी • (filmī hindī) f (Urdu spelling فلمی ہندی)

filmī hindī (romanization)
فلمی ہندی (Urdu)
फ़िल्मी हिंदी (direct singular)
फ़िल्मी हिंदी (oblique singular)
फ़िल्मी हिंदी (singular vocative)

(neologism) the register of Hindustani used in Bollywood films


फ़िल्मी गीत

hi-noun

फ़िल्मी गीत • (filmī gīt) m

filmī gīt (romanization)
फ़िल्मी गीत (direct singular)
फ़िल्मी गीत (direct plural)
फ़िल्मी गीत (oblique singular)
फ़िल्मी गीतों (oblique plural)
फ़िल्मी गीत (singular vocative)
फ़िल्मी गीतो (plural vocative)

(colloquial) filmi geet, music used in Bollywood films


Devdas

Borrowed from Hindi देवदास (devdās) or Bengali দেবদাস (debdaś), the name of the male lead in the 1917 Bengali-language story Devdas, readapted several times since.

"I don't know," he had said and sighed, Devdas style: "I don't know," Everyone wants to be a Devdas, at least for a while — or perhaps only for a while. Tragic hero.

1980, Sāhitya Akademi, Indian Literature, volume 23, page 539:

It reminds me very much of the Devdas character that so suffuses Indian cinema, not just in the 1935 and 1955 film versions, but as a 'Devdas effect' in Hindi melodramas, especially those of Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt.

1996, Bruce Bennett, Crossing Cultures: Essays on Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific:

Indians everywhere recognized that when somebody pined, longed, and raged for someone else, they were "doing a Devdas."

2007, Anupama Chopra, King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema:

The character of Kashyap's Dev, although it is built on the same model as traditional Devdases, is different and suffers for other reasons.

2017, Cornelius Crowley, Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema, page 198:


bollywoodense

es-adj

bollywoodense m or f (masculine and feminine plural bollywoodenses)

bollywoodenses (feminine masculine plural)


寶萊塢

/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ laɪ̯³⁵ u⁵¹/

/pou̯³⁵ lɔːi̯²¹ wuː³⁵/

/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ laɪ̯³⁵ u⁵¹/

/pou̯³⁵ lɔːi̯²¹ wuː³⁵/


बॉलीवुड

hi-proper noun

बॉलीवुड • (bŏlīvuḍ) m (Urdu spelling بالی وڈ)

bŏlīvuḍ (romanization)
بالی وڈ (Urdu)
बॉलीवुड (direct singular)
बॉलीवुड (oblique singular)
बॉलीवुड (singular vocative)


Urduwood

Four, although Baahubali is not a Bollywood film, Baahubali trolls resent the success of Bollywood’s three Khans, because they are non-Hindus – hence the “Urduwood” taunt.

(India, Hindutva, informal, Internet slang) Bollywood.


urban Naxal

Coined by Indian filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri in Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam, a 2018 book about his 2014 film Buddha in a Traffic Jam. Referring to the group's alleged ties with communist militants for left-wing beliefs, support for socialism, and hostility to Hindu nationalism.

(Indian politics, derogatory, slang, chiefly Hindutva, politics) a liberal or a leftist.

Indian politics; chiefly Hindutva; Indian politics; chiefly Hindutva


بالی وڈ

ur-proper noun

بالی وڈ • (bālī oḍ) m (Hindi spelling बॉलीवुड)


波里活

/pɔː⁵⁵ lei̯¹³ wuːt̚²/

/pɔː⁵⁵ lei̯¹³ wuːt̚²/


ফিল্মি

filmi (music written especially for Bollywood films)


বলিউড

head

বলিউড • (boliuḍ)

bn-proper noun

বলিউড • (boliuḍ)


Болливуд

ru-proper noun+

Болливу́д • (Bollivúd) m inan (genitive Болливу́да)

Болливу́д (canonical)
Bollivúd (romanization)
Болливу́да (genitive)


DDLJ

I was in high school when I watched DDLJ for the first time, it was enticing to watch you open your arms and Simran running into them.

2023, Lubaina Najmi, “An Open Letter to SRK”, in Prerna Agrawal, editor, Dust of Love, Suvidhi Publication, page 146:

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
w:Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Initialism of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (a 1995 Hindi film).


Sharmishta Roy, who did the sets of K3G, has this to say about Johar: “Karan cannot handle dirt, he cannot deal with grime, he went to Chandni Chowk and almost fainted.”

2007, Ranjani Mazumdar, Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City, University of Minnesota Press, page 227:

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
w: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...

Abbreviation of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (a 2001 Hindi film).


HAHK

In keeping with the neo-conservatism of [Madhuri Dixit’s character Nisha’s] times, [Nisha] enthusiastically participates in the numerous Hindu marriage rituals and ceremonies that dominate the diegetic world of HAHK.

2012, Nandana Bose, Madhuri Dixit, Bloomsbury Publishing, pages 61-62:

Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
w:Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!

Initialism of Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (a Hindi movie).


QSQT

The most recognisable sequence that QSQT has borrowed from West Side Story is the one where Tony and Maria pledge their troth before God.

2018, Koel Chatterjee, “Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,/To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?”, in Poonam Trivedi, Paromita Chakravarti, editors, Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas: "Local Habitations", Routledge, page 173:

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
w:Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak

Initialism of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (a Hindi movie).


KHNH

KHNH, however, is best known for the scene where Aman and Naina’s eventual husband Rohit (played by Saif Ali Khan), are mistaken as gay lovers by the traditional Indian maid of the diasporic Indian man (Gehlawat 2010).

2013, Nandini Bhattacharya, Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject, Routledge, page 211:

Initialism of Kal Ho Naa Ho (a Hindi movie).


KANK

While the mismatched couple - a protagonist with the “wrong” partner – is a common trope in Hindi cinema, KANK employs this trope within the institution of marriage to indicate that Maya and Dev are with the wrong partners - namely, their spouses.

2013, Jigna Desai, Rani Neutill, “The Anxieties of a “New” Indian Modernity”, in Ato Quayson, Girish Daswani, editors, A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, John Wiley & Sons, page 202:

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
w:Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

Initialism of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (a Hindi movie).


MNIK

Living in Ithaca, New York, on February 13, 2010, I would have needed to drive to Syracuse, which is about seventy-five minutes away, in order to see MNIK in a theatre.

2012, Monika Mehta, Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema, University of Texas Press, page 225:

Initialism of My Name Is Khan (a Hindi movie).


RNBDJ

“So, how was your day?”“Good”, [Ada] said, “I slept, I ate Maggi for lunch and watched my Shahrukh’s RNBDJ”
“Surinder Sahni?” [Aarav] laughed, “nice movie isn’t it?”
“Amazing!”

2021, Syed Arshad, If It's Not Love, Blue Rose Publishers, page 132:

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
w:Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Initialism of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (a Hindi movie).


HSSH

An secondary couple in HSSH⁴² mirrors another archetypal relationship: Radha and Krishna […] In HSSH⁴⁴ Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) and Sapna (Karishma Kapoor) reminisce over home movies, gazing romantically as they see younger versions of themselves singing, dancing and fighting during a Janmashtami celebration⁴⁵ in which they dressed up as Krishna and Radha.

2014, Rekha Sharma, Carol A. Savery, “Bollywood Marriages: Portrayals of Matrimony in Hindi Popular Cinema”, in Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, Bob Batchelor, editors, Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture, Rowman & Littlefield, pages 151-152:

Hum Saath-Saath Hain
w:Hum Saath-Saath Hain

Initialism of Hum Saath-Saath Hain (a 1999 Hindi film).


JJWS

After [QSQT]’s stupendous success, [Mansoor Khan] had a clearer view of what would work in a film and rewrote JJWS.

2018, Diptakirti Chaudhuri, Bioscope: A Frivolous History of Bollywood in Ten Chapters, Hachette UK, page 1989:

While [Mansoor Khan] had based ‘JJWS’ in the hill station of Kodaikanal, ‘Josh’ had the backdrop of sunny Goa.

2020, Bobby Ghatak, Teen Sey Chhey - Rewinding Bollywood, Becomeshakespeare.com, page 355:

Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar
w: Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar

Initialism of Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (a 1992 Hindi film).


My point is that, against the historical backdrop of stereotypical images of Asia (China in particular) in Indian cinema, CC2C certainly comes across as relatively mild, if somewhat offensive.
[…] Viewed against [the] history of negative images of China [in Indian films], CC2C is a study of contrast.
[…] CC2C was made at a time when there was hitherto unprecedented degree of cross-pollination of Indian and Asian film cultures.

2016, S. V. Srinivas, “Between solidarity and the stereotype: Chandni Chowk to China”, in Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal, Parichay Patra, editors, Salaam Bollywood: Representations and interpretations, Routledge, page 251:

Chandni Chowk to China
w:Chandni Chowk to China

Abbreviation of Chandni Chowk to China (a 2009 Hindi film).


YJHD

[My daughter] is not just born to sit at the backseat of her
boyfriend’s bike,
She can ride better than him.
She is not just born to be a toy for anyone’s
lust,
She rule[s] her own body & can decide to
whom [to] give [the] right to touch her body & soul.
She can be bold, badass like Aditi in YJHD,
At the same time she can be sweet &
innocent like Naina in YJHD.

2021, Vishakha Malukani (Morika), “I will teach my daughter”, in Vishakha Malukani (Morika), editor, The Warmth of Emotions, Writersgram Publications, →ISBN, page 19:

YJHD gave a new look to me,
About the
Camaraderie bond with friends.
It was not just any film,
It was an emotion.
[…]
Which I would cherish with my friends,
As if I was Naina.

2023, Mitali Pravin Shah, “If I was Naina in YJHD”, in Mitali Pravin Shah, editor, Delightful Sonnets: (Versatile genre of poems), Shashwat Publication, →ISBN, page 355:

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
w:Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Initialism of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (a 2013 Hindi film).