Will Smith gives wake up call?

Will Smith's call for marriage of Hollywood and Bollywood makes one wonder what happened to the score of international projects that our filmmakers were engaged with not so long ago.

Wonder if Will's meeting with Bollywood directors will revive these forgotten projects like Mumbai-based Percept Pictures, which recently announced plans to co-produce Ram Gopal Varma's first "exclusively American" film, entitled "Within" followed by "Ek".

Then there is "Marigold", starring Salman Khan. The last we heard was that William Carroll, director of Salman Khan starrer "Marigold", has cast him in his forthcoming project, a "Wizard of Oz" remake aimed at teenagers.

Among the several India-US co-productions already in the pipeline, Manish Gupta's "Karma", Confessions and Holi" looks to be the one that will be the first to hit the screen.