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Bollywood is the sobriquet for India's Hindi language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra.

It is more formally referred to as Hindi cinema.

The term "Bollywood" is often used by non-Indians as a synecdoche to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; however, Bollywood proper is only a part of the larger Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in many other Indian languages.

Hindi (Devanagari: , IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

Along with the English language, Hindi written in the Devanagari script, is the official language of the Government of India.

It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India.

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket (a set of three wooden stumps) at each end.

One team bats, attempting to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents field.

Each phase of play is called an innings.

After either ten batsmen have been dismissed or a fixed number of overs have been completed, the innings ends and the two teams then swap roles.

The winning team is the one that scores the most runs, including any extras gained, during their innings.

Taan (Hindi) is a virtuoso technique used in the vocal performance of a raga in Hindustani classical music.

It involves the singing of very rapid melodic passages using vowels, often the long "a" as in the word "far", and it targets at improvising and to expand weaving together the notes in a fast tempo.

It is similar to the technique ahaat, used in Arabic music.

Dus (translation: Ten) is a 2005 Bollywood action spy thriller film based on the Indian Special Investigation Team (SIT) Officers.

The film is directed by Anubhav Sinha and produced by Nitin Manmohan.

It stars Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty, Zayed Khan and Esha Deol in lead roles.

The film is a tribute to celebrated director Mukul S.

Anand, who had died while filming the 1997 incomplete film of the same name, and which had also starred Sanjay Dutt in the lead role.

The film was a commercial and critical success at the Indian box office.