Deccani film industry

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The Deccani film industry, also known as Dollywood is the Deccani and Hyderabadi Urdu-language film industry based in Hyderabad, India. [1] The films have gained popularity not only in the Deccan region of India, but as well as other Hindi-Urdu speaking areas of the world. [2] The films are produced in the Deccani language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Deccan region of southern India, and more specifically, in Hyderabadi Urdu, while some films incorporate standard Urdu dialogues as well, especially in its music. [3]

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Originally labelled as "Hindi" films by the Central Board of Film Certification, the industry has now gotten its own language tag of Dakhini. [4]

List of Deccani films

FilmYear
The Angrez 2005
Hyderabad Nawabs 2006
Hungama in Dubai 2007
Stepney 2014
The Angrez 2 2015
Dawat-E-Shaadi 2016
Stepney 2 Returns 2017

Bollywood films featuring Deccani

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References

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