"Urduwood" redirects here. For Bollywood as a whole, see Hindi cinema. For the Pakistani Urdu-language film industry, see Cinema of Pakistan.
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Several boycotts have been started against Hindi films by Hindu nationalists in recent years, with the term Urduwood being used to characterise the Hindi-language Bollywood film industry as a Muslim-dominated, anti-Hindu industry which favours the use of Urdu over Hindi.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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