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Lollywood is Pakistan's film industry, which has served as the base for both Urdu- and Punjabi-language film production.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Lahore has been the center of Pakistani cinema since independence in 1947. However, with Urdu film hub largely shifting to Karachi by 2007, film industry in Lahore became synonymous with Pakistani Punjabi film Industry.[citation needed]
The word "Lollywood" is a portmanteau of "Lahore" and "Hollywood", coined in 1989 by Glamour magazine gossip columnist Saleem Nasir, and is usually used comparatively with respect to other film industries in South Asian cinema.
The real-life characters behind the goonda and gandasa era of Lollywood... The scene is from the 1979 Lollywood film Wehshi Gujjar. On the face of it, to any modern critic of the Punjabi film industry, the story follows the 'tried-and-tested' Punjabi film formula: honour, bharaks (grandiose boasting), machismo and violence.
Though from an Urdu-speaking Indian immigrant background, Rahi did most of his acting in Punjabi films. Indeed, the whole genre of so-called gandasa (long-handled axe) movies, which has dominated Punjabi filmdom since the late '70s, is built almost entirely upon the face and voice of Sultan Rahi.