India is home to the world's biggest film industry, Bollywood. Based in Mumbai, this industry produces almost half of the movies made in India. It has some of the world's biggest movie stars like Amitabh Bacchhan and Shahrukh Khan. With close to 200 movies made every year, it is the largest film industry in terms of movies produced every year.

From the first movie, "Raja Harishachandra" produced in 1913, Bollywood has come a long way. From producing mostly mythological movies in its origins to producing superhero scifi movies like Ra.One, Krrish and crime thrillers like A Wednesday amongst various other genres that have now began to be made. Progress in technology, changing Indian culture and increase in young educated population has led to numerous new types of movies being made while other types being discarded.

Below is a set of visualizations I did as a way to look into how Bollywood has evolved through the years. The data is since 1920 upto 2015. The first graphic focuses on quantitative analysis i.e. number of movies made in a year and the highest grossing movie of that year. The graphics after that form a set of qualitative analysis of how the genres of movies in Bollywood have changed since 1920. I have tried my best to mention wherever I thought the data maybe misleading (mainly because of lack of data) and have made efforts to show whatever patterns I found in the best way possible. That said, I do suck a lot of times, so apologies for some places where I might have messed up. If you feel like this graphic misrepresents/underrepresents anything or have any form of feedback, you can totally rant about it to me. Details about me are at the bottom of this page.