"B-town" meaning in All languages combined

See B-town on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Forms: B-Town [canonical]
Etymology: Compare A-Town, D-Town, K-Town. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=B-Town}} B-Town
  1. (India, slang) The Bollywood movie industry. Tags: India, slang Categories (topical): Bollywood
    Sense id: en-B-town-en-name-UVfRVDUB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Indian English, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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            "India",
            "Entertainment",
            "Mass media",
            "Asia",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Earth",
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          "text": "Indian studios provide media services to Western costumers, and foreign money has been poured into shared partnership studios working in the Mumbai film industry. ‘It’s Raining Dollars in B-Town’, trumpeted India Today headlines, and international involvement has only increased. In 2008, Danny Boyle’s cinematic adaptation of Slumdog Millionaire was shot in Bombay’s Dharavi slum and attracted worldwide attention.",
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