Tollywood: Rival to Bollywood emerges in southern India

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Two Indian films have made to the official selection of this year's Cannes Film Festival. The Hindi-language film industry, commonly referred to as Bollywood – a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood – remains the world's largest producer of films and is responsible for more than half of those in India. But despite this success, Bollywood is in crisis. Big-budget movies with many of India's most bankable megastars have sunk without a trace. Gradually, Bollywood's decline has benefited film industries in southern India. Our correspondents report on the success of Tollywood: Telugu-language films made in Hyderabad.