A borderless Bollywood
Source: Priyanka Khanna, IANS. Image Source: Movietalkies.com, IndiaFM
As Indian film associations grumble about dubbed Hollywood films capturing the entertainment market, exotic foreign beauties have slinked by and seem to be here to stay in a fast globalising Bollywood.
Just three weeks into a new year, the faces of a 20-year-old model from a tiny South African town and a picture perfect beauty from Britain have been adorning billboards and marquees across the country.
On the heels of a small-budget romantic thriller - "Rog" - with South African Ilene Hamann in a crucial role, comes "Kisna", a magnum opus with British actress Antonia Bernath cast as the female lead by Subhash Ghai, one of the Hindi film industry's most successful filmmakers.
Ghai, known as the original showman, has set to rest all doubts about how far India's huge, colourful movie industry is willing to open its doors for foreign actors with his casting coup.
The much-awaited film with Vivek Oberoi in the title role released this week and the surprise package was Antonia whose performance was rated as superlative by the usually hard-to-please film critics.
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