Mumbai is home to major financial institutions such as the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Reserve Bank of India, as well as Bollywood, the movie industry that produces around 1, 000 Hindi-language movies and musicals a year in Film City, a complex of studios, backlots and landscapes.

BBC: Living in: Mumbai

Although public tours are not commonplace as they are in LA, visitors can catch a glimpse of show business by driving or walking by the backlots of such bustling studios as North Shore Studios ( formerly Lion Gate Studios ), Bridge Studios, Vancouver Film Studios, Canadian Motion Picture Park and Eagle Creek Studios.

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