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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.

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

It is the most populous city in India and the ninth most populous agglomeration in the world, with an estimated city population of 18.4 million.

Along with the neighbouring regions of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world and the second most populous metropolitan area in India, with a population of 20.7 million.

Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour.

In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city.

It is also the wealthiest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South, West, or Central Asia.

Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires and millionaires among all cities in 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.

The Indian cricket team, also known as Team India and Men in Blue, represents India in international cricket.

Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.

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.