The Deccani film industry, also known as Dollywood is the Deccani language/
Hyderabadi Urdu film industry based in
Hyderabad, Telangana
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. ...
,
India
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. The films have gained popularity not only in the Deccan region of India, but as well as other
Hindi/Urdu speaking areas of the world. The films are produced in the
Deccani language
Deccani (also known as Deccani Urdu and Deccani Hindi). https://knowledgehubadda.blogspot.com/2022/02/blog-post_74.html? m=1 or Dakni, Dakhni, Dakhini, Dakkhani and Dakkani (, ''dekanī'' or , ''dakhanī''), is a variety of Hindustani spoken ...
, an Indo-Aryan Dravidian Hindustani tongue spoken in
Southern India
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, and more specifically, in
Hyderabadi Urdu, while some films incorporate standard Urdu dialogues as well, especially in its music. Originally labelled as "Hindi" films by the
central board of film certification
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a statutory film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. It is tasked with "regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisio ...
, the industry has now gotten its own language tag of Dakhini.
List of Deccani films
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (f ...
movies of Deccani dialect
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Ankur'' (1974)
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Nishant'' (1975)
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Bazaar'' (1982)
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Nikaah'' (1982)
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Mandi'' (1983)
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Hero Hiralal'' (1988)
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Hyderabad Blues'' (1998)
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Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities'' (2004)
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Well Done Abba'' (2010)
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Daawat-e-Ishq'' (2014)
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Bobby Jasoos'' (2014)
References
Cinema of Telangana
Culture of Hyderabad, India
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