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By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com Guides to Independent Film since 1999

Hollywood Goes Bollywood

Friday May 13, 2005
In what marks a new trend in the making, American filmmaker Willard Carroll is shooting his first Bollywood production. Salman Khan stars in "Marigold: An Adventure in India," which is currently filming in Bombay. Khan, a major superstar in India, plays an Indian choreographer who meets an unsuccessful American actress (Ali Larter) who is stranded in India and forced to work in a Bollywood movie to get back home. A huge multi-million dollar industry in Asia, Bollywood films are gaining global popularity with such recent hits as "Monsoon Wedding" and "Bride and Prejudice."

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May 10, 2008 at 1:20 am
(1) tanya says:

uh. mira nair is brilliant, but her movies arnt bollywood, not even stylistically. nor is deepa mehta, another woman mistaken for a bollywood director.

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