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Telangana is one of the 29 states in India, located in southern India.

Formed in June 2014 as the newest state in India, from the northern part of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana has an area of, and a population of 35,193,978 (2011 census).

It is the twelfth largest state in India, and the twelfth most populated state in India.

Its major cities include Hyderabad, Warangal, Nizamabad, Khammam, Karimnagar and Ramagundam.

Telangana is bordered by the states of Maharashtra to the north and north west, Chhattisgarh to the north, Karnataka to the west and Andhra Pradesh to the east and south.

Telugu cinema, also known by its sobriquet Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language.

The industry is based in Film Nagar, a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, Telangana.

Since 1909, Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu, an Indian film maker, was involved in producing short films and travelling to different regions in Asia to promote film work.

In 1921, he produced the first Telugu silent film, Bhishma Pratigna.

He is cited as the father of Telugu cinema.

Telugu is a Dravidian language native to India.

It stands alongside Hindi, English, and Bengali as one of the few languages with official status in more than one Indian state; it is the primary language in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and in the town of Yanam, Puducherry.

It is also spoken by significant minorities in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and by the Sri Lankan Gypsy people.

It is one of six languages designated a classical language of India by the Government of India.

Telugu ranks third by the number of native speakers in India (74 million, 2001 census), fifteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide and is the most widely spoken Dravidian language.

It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India.

India, officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia.

It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world.

It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast.

It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east.

In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Andhra Pradesh() is one of the 29 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of the country.

The state is the eighth largest state in India covering an area of.

As per 2011 Census of India, the state is tenth largest by population with 49,386,799 inhabitants.