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Bengali cinema, or the Bengali film industry, is one of the earliest film industries in India. The contribution of Bengali film industry to Indian film is quite important. It is based in Tollygunge, an area of South Kolkata, West Bengal and is notably elite and more artistically-inclined than the usual musical cinema fare in India. It enjoys large, even disproportionate, representation in Bollywood. It is also the only film industry in India to have produced an Academy Award winner Satyajit Ray, an acknowledged great of world film who also won India and France's greatest honours, the Bharat Ratna and Legion of Honour.

Some of the other most prominent film makers in the Bengali film industry are Bimal Roy, Rhitik Ghatak , and Mrinal Sen. The Bengali film industry has produced classics like 'Pather Panchali', 'Devi', 'Jalsaghar', 'Devdas', etc.

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