Its long tradition of filmmaking includes acclaimed directors such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Ritwik Ghatak to contemporary directors such as Aparna Sen and Rituparno Ghosh. Tollygunj in Kolkata is the location of Bengali movie studios. Mainstream Hindi films are popular, as they are films from the Bengali cinema industry, dubbed 'Tollywood'. The city has a tradition of dramas in the form of jatra (a kind of folk-theatre), theatres and Group Theatres.
