Mollywood

English

Etymology 1

Blend of Malayalam +‎ Hollywood.

Proper noun

Mollywood

1. (informal) The Malayalam-speaking film industry in Kerala.
   • 2008, James Donald, Michael Renov, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies, →ISBN, page 490:

     In defence it may be argued that Tamil cinema styles itself Mollywood anyway (Madras + Hollywood), but here again the city's name has also been changed to Chennai.

   • 2008 December, Pushpa Iyengar, “Kochi to Kodamb”, in Outlook, volume 48, number 51, page 70:

     Having honed their craft in Mollywood, they have been lured to Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh where the moolah is a lot more attractive and the audience base a whole lot bigger.

   • 2013, Mark Thornton Burnett, Shakespeare and World Cinema, →ISBN, page 55:

     India is home to numerous regionally identified film centres — including Tollywood (Telegu Cinema) and Mollywood (Malayalam Cinema) — which interact with each other at several levels.

Etymology 2

Blend of Molly +‎ Hollywood, from Molly Mormon, a term for a stereotypical female member of the LDS Church.

Proper noun

Mollywood

1. (informal) The Mormon film industry.
   • 2010, Juliette Wells, “Jane Austen in Mollywood”, in Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen:

     Faller has said that he sees this version of Pride and Prejudice as an example of a Mollywood film or, in other words, a "Mormon chick flick";

   • 2012, E McIntyre, Knock Knocking on Heaven's Door: Humour and Religion in Mormon Comedy, page 75:

     The comedies that came out of Mollywood in the 2000s can be almost excluseively associated with HaleStorm Entertainment, based in Provo, Utah.

   • 2012, Elisha McIntyre, Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, →ISBN, page 74:

     Mollywood is not an official Church institution, although the Church has been using film as a tool for religious education since the early twentieth century.

   • 2013, Nadia Marzouki, Olivier Roy, Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World, →ISBN:

     Rigal-Cellard's comments about 'Mormon culture' demonstrate that, more than a mere religion, Mormonism indeed appears like a culture, a way of life encompassing all aspects of daily life. American Mormons have their own music (the Church-sponsored traditional Mormon Tabernacle Choir or non-Church sponsored Mormon boy band 'Evercleen'), are encouraged to dress 'modestly', and there is even a Mormon cinema ('Mollywood').