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Cinema Of Punjab

South Asian cinema
Cinema of India Assamese cinema Badaga cinema Bengali cinema (West Bengal) Bhojpuri cinema Gujarati cinema Hindi cinema Kannada cinema Konkani cinema Kosli cinema Malayalam cinema Marathi cinema Oriya cinema Punjabi cinema Tamil cinema (Tamil Nadu) Telugu cinema Tulu cinema Cinema of Bangladesh Bengali cinema (Bangladesh) Cinema of Nepal Cinema of Sri Lanka Tamil cinema (Sri Lanka) Cinema of Pakistan Karachi cinema Lahore cinema Pashto cinema Pothwari cinema Sindhi cinema

South Asian cinema

Cinema of India
- Assamese cinema
- Badaga cinema
- Bengali cinema (West Bengal)
- Bhojpuri cinema
- Gujarati cinema
- Hindi cinema
- Kannada cinema
- Konkani cinema
- Kosli cinema
- Malayalam cinema
- Marathi cinema
- Oriya cinema
- Punjabi cinema
- Tamil cinema (Tamil Nadu)
- Telugu cinema
- Tulu cinema
Cinema of Bangladesh
- Bengali cinema (Bangladesh)
Cinema of Nepal
Cinema of Sri Lanka
- Tamil cinema (Sri Lanka)
Cinema of Pakistan
- Karachi cinema
- Lahore cinema
- Pashto cinema
- Pothwari cinema
- Sindhi cinema

Punjabi cinema (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਿਨੇਮਾ) is the Punjabi language film industry in the states of Punjab in India and Pakistan. While 20. century Punjabi cinema had great influence of Pakistani based Punjabi cinema, in the 21. century Punjabi cinema, due to its boom, has become synonymous with Indian Punjab.

The first Punjabi film was made in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and was released in Lahore, provincial capital of the Pakistani Punjab. The Lahore film industry is known as Lollywood, a portmanteau of the words Lahore and Hollywood.

As of 2009, the Punjabi film industry has produced between 900 and 1,000 films. The average number of releases per year in the 1970s was nine; in the 1980s, eight; and in the 1990s, six. In 1995, the number of films released was 11; it plummeted to seven in 1996 and touched a low of five in 1997. Since the 2000s Punjabi cinema has seen a revival with more releases every year with bigger budgets, home grown stars, and Bollywood actors of Punjabi descent taking part.

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“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)