Winning eight Oscars at this years Academy Awards Slumdog Millionaire defies itself, considering it was once a film almost headed straight to the DVD rack…Could Hollywood be opening it’s golden doors to Indian cinema?
(CNN) reports…The colorful story, which mixes the gritty life of Mumbai’s poor with the shiny aspirations of the new India, features no stars recognizable to Western audiences.
So, is it time for Bollywood — as India’s huge Mumbai-based film industry is called — to come to America?
“International cinema comes in cycles in the United States,” said Frank Lovece, a film critic with Film Journal International. “Now, it’s Bollywood’s time.”
…But “Slumdog” is a far cry from the lavish movie musicals made by Bollywood, which releases nearly 1,000 films annually…
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