Tollywood

Tollywood

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

Mughal Gardens replica in Ramoji Film City, a movie studio in Hyderabad
Industry Motion pictures
Founded 1921
Madras, Madras Presidency,
(now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India)
Headquarters Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Website www.apfilmchamber.com

The Cinema of Andhra Pradesh (also known as Telugu cinema or Tollywood), is a part of Indian cinema, based in Hyderabad, India. Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu is considered to be the father of Telugu Cinema. Since 1909, he was involved in many aspects of Indian cinemas history, like travelling to different regions in Asia to promote film work. In 1921, He produced Bhishma Pratigna the first silent film in the state. The first film studio in South India, Durga Cinetone was built in 1936 by Nidamarthi Surayya in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.

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