Gangtok has three cinema halls featuring Nepali, Hindi and English language films. Bollywood is a strong part of Indian film industries.
Bollywood with other major cinematic hubs--Tamil (Kollywood), Telugu (Tollywood), Bengali, Kannada, and Malayalam and some local regions, constitutes the broader Indian film industry. It's output is the largest in the world in terms of number of films produced and in number of tickets sold. Many new films open every week. So the advertisement of films consumes a lot of money all over India.
Gangtok has three cinema halls featuring Nepali, Hindi and English language films. Gangtok is the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim. It is situated in the lower Himalayas and known for its clean surroundings and temperate climate. This hill station of about fifty thousand people is the centre of Sikkim's tourist industry. The Enchey Monastery in 1840 made it a pilgrimage center. It became a major stopover between Tibet and British India at the end of the 19th century. Following India's independence in 1947, Sikkim became a nation-state with Gangtok as its capital. In 1975 the monarchy was abrogated and Sikkim became India's twenty-second state, with Gangtok remaining as its capital. Gangtok is a centre of Tibetan Buddhist culture and learning with numerous monasteries and religious educational institutions.
