"Punjabi cinema (Punjabi: \u0A2A\u0A70\u0A1C\u0A3E\u0A2C\u0A40 \u0A38\u0A3F\u0A28\u0A47\u0A2E\u0A3E), commonly known as Pollywood is the Punjabi language film industry in the states of Punjab in India and Pakistan. While 20th-century Punjabi cinema had great influence of Pakistani-based Punjabi cinema, the 21st-century Punjabi cinema, due to its boom, has become synonymous with Indian Punjab.The first Punjabi film was made in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and was released in Lahore, provincial capital of the then-British province of Punjab."@en . . .