It was only in the period of 50-60 when cinema got its superstars. Celebrities like Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand are the product of this era. Regional cinema also gradually grew under the shade of Bollywood. Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayali, today Indian film industry makes films in all these languages.
Almost all the states in India have their own film industry. Every year, India produces around 1500–2000 films, making it the largest industry in the world. Reach of Indian films is all over the world. The UK, US, Australia, Asia and Middle East are the largest markets for Indian films.
TLhe Indian film industry, which began in 1913 with the film Raja Harishchandra, is now 104 years old. There were many changes in the film industry after independence. After 1947, filmmakers produced more films highlighting social issues. Raj Kapoor's Awara (1951), Jagte Raho (1956), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa (1957) and Pepper Ke Phool (1959) and Bimal Roy's Sujata (1959) and Bandini (1963) are some of those selected films. All these films not only showed the social direction of India at that time, but also reflected the thinking ahead of its time on the big screen.
