India being a polyglot federation of 29 States, there are several languages in which films are made on a sustained, sizeable scale: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Odiya etc., and of course, Hindi, the official lingua franca which in various degrees is spoken and understood widely in the country. Hindi film production, centered historically in the polyglot metropolis of Mumbai(also the capital of Maharashtra), has attended to dominate the production in all other languages in terms of quantity, reach, size of investment and the attention it commands from the media and the movie-going public. However, during the last few years, the hindi film’s numerical supremacy has been challenged by Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films.

 

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