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Type of site | Online database for movies and television |
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| Available in | Bengali |
| Created by | Nazmul Hasan Darashiko (CEO) |
| Website | bmdb |
| Alexa rank |  |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Registration is optional for members to participate in discussions, comments, ratings, and voting |
| Launched | 4 July 2013 |
| Current status | Active |
The Bangla Movie Database (abbreviated BMDb) is an online database of information related to Bengali films and television programs, including cast, production crew, fictional characters, biographies, plot summaries, trivia and reviews. Launched in July 4, 2013 [1] and located at Purana Paltan, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Database of this website is hosted in Singapore. [2] As of May 2016, it is ranked 266,966 in Alexa Internet global sites ranking and 1,577 in local sites ranking. [3] As of December 2015, it was ranked 197,457 in SiteLeaks global sites ranking and 1,333 in local sites ranking. [4]
An online database is a database accessible from a local network or the Internet, as opposed to one that is stored locally on an individual computer or its attached storage. Online databases are hosted on websites, made available as software as a service products accessible via a web browser. They may be free or require payment, such as by a monthly subscription. Some have enhanced features such as collaborative editing and email notification.
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Bengalis in South Asia. It is the official and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India, behind Hindi.
The cinema of Bangladesh is the Bengali language film industry based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It has often been a significant film industry since the early 1970s and is frequently referred to as "Dhallywood", which is a portmanteau of the words Dhaka and Hollywood. The dominant style of Bangladeshi cinema is melodramatic cinema, which developed from 1947 to 1990 and characterizes most films to this day. Cinema was introduced in Bangladesh in 1898 by the Bradford Bioscope Company, credited to have arranged the first film release in Bangladesh. Between 1913 and 1914, the first production company, Picture House, was opened. A 1928 short silent film titled Sukumari was the first Bengali-produced film in the region. The first full-length film, The Last Kiss, was released in 1931. Following the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan, Dhaka became the center of the Bangladeshi film industry, and has generated the majority share of revenue, production and audiences for Dhallywood films. The Face and the Mask, the first Bengali-language full-length feature film of Bangladesh was produced in 1956. During the 1970s, many Dhallywood films were inspired by Indian films, with some of the films being unofficial remakes of those films. The industry continued to grow, and many successful Bangladeshi films were produced throughout the 1970s, 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.