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Lollywood is Pakistan's Punjabi film industry, but has served as the base for both Urdu- and Punjabi-language film production.[1][2][3]
| Lollywood | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Main distributors | |
| Produced feature films (2024) | |
| Total | 100+ |
Lahore has been the center of Pakistani cinema since independence in 1947.[4][5] However, with the Urdu film hub largely shifting to Karachi[6][1] by 2007, the film industry in Lahore became synonymous with the Pakistani Punjabi film Industry.[citation needed][7][8]
According to several media sources, the word "Lollywood" is a portmanteau of "Lahore" and "Hollywood", coined in 1989 by Glamour magazine gossip columnist Saleem Nasir, and is usually used comparatively with respect to other film industries in South Asian cinema.
Etymology
edit"Lollywood" is a portmanteau derived from Lahore and "Hollywood", a shorthand reference for the American film industry, Hollywood.
History
editPrior to the 1947 partition of India into the Republic of India and Pakistan, the Lahore film industry was initially part of the British Raj-era cinema of India. The Bombay cinema industry (now known as Hindi cinema or "Bollywood" in modern India) was closely linked to the Lahore film industry, as both produced films in the Hindustani language, also known as Hindi-Urdu, the lingua franca of northern and central British India.[9]
Films
editLollywood films in Punjabi were most popular in the 1960s and are often referred to as the golden age of Pakistani Punjabi cinema.[10]
Casts and crews
editSee also
editReferences
edit- 1 2 "Have Urdu films taken over Lollywood? Insiders weigh in". The Express Tribune. 26 December 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ↑ "Severed limbs and rivers of blood: The film that inspired Fawad Khan's 'The Legend of Maula Jatt'". Scroll.in. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ↑ "Ejaz Durrani — Lollywood's favourite Ranjha". Dawn. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ↑ DailyTimes.pk (29 October 2019). "Cinema of Pakistan — 72 years on and beyond". Daily Times. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
- ↑ Aslam, Irfan (3 October 2021). "Khoj Garh -- a corpus of Punjabi film posters, books". Dawn. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
- ↑ Rizwan, Sheharyar (30 August 2021). "Evernew Studios — a picture of film industry's decline". Dawn. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
- ↑ Lodhi, Adnan (26 December 2015). "Punjabi cinema languishing in hometown". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
- ↑ Lodhi, Adnan (21 February 2017). "Of guns and ghandasas: The downfall of Punjabi cinema". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
- ↑ Ghosh, Partha S. (2016). Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in South Asia. SAGE Publications. p. 263. ISBN 9789351508557.
- ↑ Awan, M. Saeed (6 July 2014). "Cinemascope: Pulling the plug on Punjabi films". DAWN.COM. Archived from the original on 15 September 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
Bibliography
edit- South Asian Media Cultures: Audiences, Representations, Contexts. United Kingdom, Anthem Press, 2011.