"Bollywood" is a colloquial term that arose from the merger of two words: "Hollywood" and "Bombay". Today, Bollywood is India's huge film industry, thousands of films are shot here every year, they collect up to $ 20 billion a year. Moreover, these figures are many times higher than those of American Hollywood. How are these thousands of films made in India? How do the movie gods of the Bollywood Olympus live and how to become a star of Indian cinema? And why has Indian cinema always been so popular in Russia?