Punjabi cinema

Punjabi cinema, also known as Pollywood or Punjwood, is cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Punjabi-language widely spoken in the Indian state of Punjab. It is based in Amritsar, Ludhiana, and Mohali.

Punjabi cinema began with the 1928 silent film of Daughters of Today, produced in the region in Lahore. In 1932, the first sound film, Heer Ranjha, using sound-on-disc technology, was released.