Pooja Bhatt, most successful female filmm

The mushrooming of multiplexes has come as a boom for female filmmakers in India with director-producer Pooja Bhatt emerging as among the most successful.

In her early 30s, she is perhaps the youngest female filmmaker in Bollywood to have produced eight films and directed three of them. Pooja's directorial debut - "Jism" - had raised many eyebrows for its steamy scenes but also gave the industry two of its hottest reigning stars Bipasha Basu and John Abraham.

The daughter of prolific Bollywood veteran Mahesh Bhatt, Pooja may not be able to compete with her contemporaries in the department of aesthetics but she wins hands down when it comes to quantities. And the best part is that her films always make money one way or other.