South Indian Cinema is Bigger than Bollywood
So, why not coin a new term to refer to all of India's film industries as one? After numerous foreign outlets wrongly labelled rrr as a bollywood film simply because it is an indian ,pvoe, netizens chastised the editors. bollywood is the abbreviation for the hindi cinema industry, and the term is frequently misused as a synonym for indian cinema as a whole.
It is, however, only a small component of India's vast movie industry, which includes other production centres that produce films in a variety of languages. Finally, international portals must understand that indian cinema is a subset that only pertains to the hindi film business. We also have a slew of other regional industries, and the phrase has to be updated after the southern entertainment companies stole the show with their tried-and-true formula that works.