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Bhojpuri cinema
Bhojpuri cinema (Bhollywood) refers to films produced in the Bhojpuri language in the eastern Uttar Pradesh,
western Bihar and Madhesh in southern Nepal.The first Bhojpuri talkie film, Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo,
was released in 1963 by Vishwanath Shahabadi. The 80's saw the release of many notable as well as run-of-the-mill
Bhojpuri films like Bitia Bhail Sayan, Chandwa ke take Chakor, Hamar Bhauji, Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and
Sampoorna Tirth Yatra. Bhojpuri cinema has grown in recent years. Bhojpuri movies are seen across various parts of
Europe and Asia where second and third generation migrants still speak the language; as well as in Guyana, Trinidad
and Tobago, Suriname, Fiji, Mauritius, and South Africa, which has a large Bhojpuri population.[1]

Contents
1 Overview
2 History
3 Notable persons
3.1 Actors
3.2 Actresses
3.3 Singers

4 Notable films
5 Award
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References

Overview
Bhojpuri, often considered a dialect of Hindi, originates in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh in northern India.
Speakers of it and its creoles are found in many parts of the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom,
Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, and The Netherlands. During the late 1800s
and early 1900s, many colonizers faced labor shortages due to the abolition of slavery; thus, they imported many
Indians, many from Bhojpuri-speaking regions, as indentured servants to labor on plantations. Today, some 200
million people in the West Indies, Oceania, and South America speak Bhojpuri as a native or second language.[2]

History
In the 1960s, The first president of India, Rajendra Prasad, who hailed from Bihar, met Bollywood Actor Nazir Hussain
and asked him to make a movie in Bhojpuri, which eventually led to first Bhojpuri film's release in 1963.[3] Bhojpuri
cinema history begins with the well-received film Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo ("Mother Ganges, I will offer
you a yellow sari"), which was produced by Biswanath Prasad Shahabadi under the banner of Nirmal Pictures and

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directed by Kundan Kumar.[4] Throughout the following decades, films were produced in fits and starts. Bidesiya
("Foreigner", 1963, directed by S. N. Tripathi) and Ganga ("Ganges", 1965, directed by Kundan Kumar) were profitable
and popular, but in general Bhojpuri films were not commonly produced in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the 1980s, enough Bhojpuri films were produced to tentatively make up an industry. Films such as Mai ("Mom",
1989, directed by Rajkumar Sharma) and Hamar Bhauji ("My Brother's Wife", 1983, directed by Kalpataru) continued
to have at least sporadic success at the box office. Nadiya Ke Paar is a 1982 Hindi-Bhojpuri blockbuster directed by
Govind Moonis and starring Sachin , Sadhana Singh, Inder Thakur, Mitali, Savita Bajaj, Sheela David, Leela Mishra and
Soni Rathod. However, this trend faded out by the end of the decade. By 1990, the nascent industry seemed to be
completely finished.[5]

The industry took off again in 2001 with the Silver Jubilee hit Saiyyan Hamar ("My Sweetheart", directed by Mohan
Prasad), which shot its hero, Ravi Kissan, to superstardom.[6] This was quickly followed by several other remarkably
successful films, including Panditji Batai Na Biyah Kab Hoi ("Priest, tell me when I will marry", 2005, directed by
Mohan Prasad) and Sasura Bada Paisa Wala ("My father-in-law, the rich guy", 2005). In a measure of the Bhojpuri
film industry's rise, both of these did much better business in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh than mainstream
Bollywood hits at the time. Both films, made on extremely tight budgets, earned back more than ten times their
production costs.[7] Sasura Bada Paisa Wala introduced Manoj Tiwari, formerly a well-loved folk singer, to the wider
audiences of Bhojpuri cinema. In 2008, he and Ravi Kissan were the leading actors of Bhojpuri films, and their fees
increase with their fame. The extremely rapid success of their films has led to dramatic increases in Bhojpuri cinema's
visibility, and the industry now supports an awards show[8] and a trade magazine, Bhojpuri City,[9] which chronicles the
production and release of what are now over 100 films per year.

Many of the major stars of mainstream Bollywood cinema, including Amitabh Bachchan, have recently worked in
Bhojpuri films. Mithun Chakraborty's Bhojpuri debut Bhole Shankar, released in 2008, is considered the biggest
Bhojpuri hit of all time.[10] Also in 2008, a 21-minute diploma Bhojpuri film by Siddharth Sinha, Udedh Bun (Unravel)
was selected for world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.[11] Later it won the National Film Award for
Best Short fiction Film.[12][13]

Bhojpuri poet Manoj Bhawuk has written a history of Bhojpuri cinema.[14] Bhawuk is widely known as "Encyclopedia of
Bhojpuri Cinema".

In February 2011, a three-day film and cultural festival in Patna marking 50 years of Bhojpuri cinema, opened Ganga
Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo the first Bhojpuri film.The first bhojpuri Reality Film "Dhokha" is under production
under banner Om Kaushik Films is about to be nominated and screened in different International Film Festivals under
direction Of Rashmi Raj Kaushik Vicky and Renu Chaudhary.[15]

Notable persons
Notable personalities of the Bhojpuri film industry include:

Actors
Sujit Kumar Khesari Lal Yadav
Ravi Kishan Pawan Singh
Manoj Tiwari Vinay Anand
Dinesh Lal Yadav Dilip Sinha

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Rakesh Pandey Pradeep Pandey

Biraj Bhatta KK Goswami
Sanjay Singh Mohan Rathore
Sikandar Kharbanda Manoj Bhawuk
Damodar Raao Ritesh Pandey
Abhinav Bhardwaj Ayaz Khan
Kamaal R Khan Pawan Singh
Apart from these regular actors, many Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Ajay Devgan,
Rahul Roy, Dharmendra, Kader Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff, Abhinav Bhardwaj and Raj Babbar have
acted in Bhojpuri movies.[16][17]

Actresses
Divya Desai Rambha
Jayshree T. Rani Chatterjee
Monalisa Rinku Ghosh
Akshara Singh Ramya Sri
Kajal Raghwani Manjula Shukla
Amrapali Dubey Sambhavna Seth
Nagma Shubhi Sharma
Padma Khanna Swati Sen
Pakhi Hegde Shweta Tiwari
Poonam Sagar Swati Verma
Priya Sharma
Apart from these regular actresses, many Bollywood actresses like Aruna Irani, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan, Juhi
Chawla, Nagma, Rati Agnihotri and Shilpa Shetty are also featured in Bhojpuri movies.[16]

Singers
Kalpana Patowary Khesari Lal Yadav
Indu Sonali Dinesh Lal Yadav
Damodar Raao Pawan Singh
Manoj Tiwari "Mridul" Mohan Rathore
Poornima Ravindra Kumar "Ravi"
Apart from these regular Bhojpuri singers, famous Bollywood singers such as Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Usha
Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt, Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Udit Narayan are featured.

Notable films

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Film Language Year Actors

Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo Bhojpuri 1962

Laagi Nahi Chhute Ram Bhojpuri 1963

Bidesiya Bhojpuri 1963

Ganga Bhojpuri 1965

Bhouji Bhojpuri 1965

Loha Singh Bhojpuri 1966

Dher Chalaki Jinkara Bhojpuri 1971

Daku Rani Ganga Bhojpuri 1976

Amar Suhagin Bhojpuri 1978

Balam Pardesia Bhojpuri 1979

Chanwa Ke Take Chakor Bhojpuri 1981

Saiyan Magan Pahelwani Mein Bhojpuri 1981

Saiyan Tore Karan Bhojpuri 1981

Nadiya Ke Paar Bhojpuri 1982

Hamar Bhauji Bhojpuri 1983

Chukti Bhar Senur Bhojpuri 1983

Dulha Ganga Paar Ke Bhojpuri 1986

Roos Gailen Saiyen Hamaar Bhojpuri 1988

Pratigya Bhojpuri 2009

Devra Bada Satawela Bhojpuri 2010

Rakhwala Bhojpuri 2013

Mujrim Bhojpuri 2013

Devra Bhail Deewana Bhojpuri 2014

Dulara Bhojpuuri 2015

Ballia Ke Dabangai Bhojpuuri 2016

Action Raja Bhojpuuri 2017

Award

See also
Cinema of Bihar
Patna Film Festival
List of Bhojpuri films

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Category:Magahi-language films
Category:Maithili-language films

Notes
1. "Regional pride" (http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/regional-pride-
110062400034_1.html). Business standard. June 24, 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
2. Mesthrie, Rajend (1991). Language in Indenture: A Sociolinguistic History of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa.
London: Routledge. pp. 1932. ISBN 0-415-06404-X.
3. "First Bhojpuri Film To Be Screened During Bihar Divas" (http://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170630114737/http:
//movies.ndtv.com/movie_Story.aspx?id=ENTEN20110171729&keyword=&subcatg=). NDTV Movies. March 17,
2011. Archived from the original (http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_Story.aspx?id=ENTEN20110171729&keyword=&
subcatg=) on June 30, 2017.
4. IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233774/)
5. Tripathy, Ratnakar (2007) 'Bhojpuri Cinema', South Asian Popular Culture, 5:2, 145-165
6. Subhash K. Jha (29 March 2006). "Meet the star of Bhojpuri cinema" (http://in.rediff.com/movies/2006/mar
/29ravi.htm). Rediff. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
7. "Move over Bollywood, Here's Bhojpuri," BBC News Online: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/south_asia
/4512812.stm
8. Ashish Mitra (8 December 2006). "Bhojpuri industry On a High" (http://www.screenindia.com
/old/fullstory.php?content_id=14294). Screen. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
9. "Not moving closer to Congress: Shatrughan Sinha" (https://web.archive.org/web/20121106030352/http:
//www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200804141963.htm). The Hindu. 14 April 2008. Archived from the original
(http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200804141963.htm) on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 10 December
2009.
10. "Mithun's first Bhojpuri film creates record in Bihar" (https://web.archive.org/web/20081005022100/http:
//www.screenindia.com/news/mithuns-first-bhojpuri-film-creates-record-in-bihar/367841/). Screen. 3 October 2008.
Archived from the original (http://www.screenindia.com/news/mithuns-first-bhojpuri-film-creates-record-in-
bihar/367841/) on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
11. Kapoor, Saurabh (Feb 7, 2008). "Bhojpuri cinema heads to Berlin" (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india
/Bhojpuri-cinema-heads-to-Berlin-/articleshow/2764728.cms). The Times of India.
12. Discovery of 2008: Siddharth Sinha, Silver Bear Winner at Berlin (http://india.cineuropa.org/2009/01/discovery-
of-2008-siddharth-sinha.html) January 2009.
13. "Cut to fame" (http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/cut-to-fame/514294/). Indian Express. Sep 8, 2009.
14. https://bhojpuricinema.wordpress.com/bhojpuri-cinema-ke-itihas/
15. "Strong at 50, Bhojpuri cinema celebrates" (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/strong-at-50-bhojpuri-cinema-
celebrates/749762/0). Indian Express. Feb 14, 2011.
16. "Bollywood actors in Bhojpuri films. Have a look" (http://forum.ibodatabase.com/58736/bollywood-actors-in-
bhojpuri-films-have-a-look). Retrieved 11 January 2014.
17. "Abhishek to star in Bhojpuri film" (http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/1435250/Abhishek-to-star-in-Bhojpuri-
film). Retrieved 11 January 2014.

References
Ghosh, Avijit (2010). Cinema Bhojpuri (https://books.google.com/books?id=wAuTZ6_1XL4C). Penguin Books
Limited. ISBN 978-81-8475-256-4.

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(https://books.google.com/books?id=djUFmlFbzFkC&pg=PA159). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-77284-9.

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