Lagaan
Bollywood is the biggest movie making industry in the world and is producing hundreds of movies ever year.
In 2013 Bollywood celebrates 100 hundred years as this year makes the release of Raja Harishchandra, the first silent feature film made in India, back in 1913.
Since then Bollywood has gone on to produce some huge movies as well as some of film's biggest stars.
Directed by Dadsaheb Phalke, Raja Harishchandra starred D.D. Dabke and P. G. Sane and was a real milestone in Indian cinema.
Over the next fifteen years Indian began producing films on a huge scale and by 1930 Bollywood was ready to make the leap into talking pictures.
By 1937 the first colour movie in Hindi was made by director Ardeshir Irani. Kisan Kanya - but films in colour wouldn't really become the norm until the fifties.
The forties and fifties are widely regarded as the 'golden age' in Bollywood cinema as some of the most acclaimed picture were made during this time.
Many of the films that enjoyed success tackled major social themes such as the working class life in urban India.
The likes of Awaara, Shree 420, Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool were all huge successes throughout the fifties.
But Bollywood cinema was appealing to audiences on a more global level by the late fifties as Mehboob Khan's Mother India was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957.
The movie followed the life of a poverty stricken women who struggles to bring up her sons and survive.
Mother India was the highest grossing Hindi of the time and still is one of the most successful film at the Indian box office.
It was to be India's first submission for the Foreign Language Film at the Oscars; it lost out to Nights of Cabiria from Italy.
However Indian cinema would have to wait until 1988 until a film from their country was nominated for an Oscar for a second time; that came in the form of Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair.
While recognition at the Oscars was slow coming Bollywood cinema thrived at the Cannes Film Festival with many movies in the running for the Palme d'Or throughout the fifties and sixties.
Into the sixties and seventies and romance and action films were at the height of their popularity. Into the eighties and nineties and it was musical and family themed films that were once again popular.
Today Bollywood is as popular today as it ever was and Indian films are still enjoying huge box office success as well as producing huge acting stars.
Lagaan, Devdas, Dhoom 2 and Om Shanti Om are just some of the movies that have enjoyed global success, as Bollywood cinema was opened up to the rest of the world.
Lagaan was nominated at the Oscars while Devdas picked up a Bafta nomination.
One hundred years on and Bollywood is really at the peak of its powers with some of the biggest names in cinema such as Aishwarya Rai, Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra all enjoying huge success.
We have also seen a cross over between in Bollywood and Western cinema with movies such as Bride & Prejudice. Also stars such as Aishwarya Rai and Irrfan Khan starring in movies away from Bollywood.
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