Hollywood Comes to India, Bollywood Looks Abroad
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After 25 years since its last visit, the James Bond movie franchise 1 is returning to India. After authorities granted on-location shooting permits in New Delhi, Mumbai and Goa, India media reported the film may include a sequence in crowded markets and on a train. Even the star of the still-unnamed 23rd film in the series about a dapper British super spy, Daniel Craig, is expected to sign on as the official Ambassador of Indian Railways and appear in a TV commercial.
But the new Bond film isn't the only movie planning to use India as a location.
Indian authorities gave permission to more than 20 foreign filmmakers to shoot in India last year. Some of the high-profile projects include Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna, and Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, an adaptation of a novel. Eat, Pray and Love, starring Julia Roberts, was also partly filmed in India.
Entertainment analyst 2 Komal Nahata says the global profile that India has acquired in recent years is enticing 3 more filmmakers.
“Since India is no longer an obscure country, a lot of people come here, a lot of people hear about it," she said. "India is on the world map in a big way. Therefore also, India becomes easy to identify with."
But Nahata also says more foreign films are basing plots in India. Trishna is the tragic 4 love story of a rich businessman and a rickshaw driver’s daughter; Life of Pi is the story of an Indian in Pondicherry.
Analysts 5 also say more film producers may have begun looking at India in the wake of the runaway 6 success of the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slum Dog Millionaire, produced by British filmmaker Danny Boyle. The film tells the story of a teenager from the teeming 7 slums of Mumbai who wins a popular game show.
“Whether it is Bollywood or Hollywood, nothing succeeds like success," Nahata said. "Since 'Slumdog Millionaire' was such a roaring success, suddenly people started thinking, yes, India could be a good destination. Maybe India is lucky."
Home to the thriving Hindi movie industry known as Bollywood, India is also an easy place to pick up good technical talent to stage a project.
However, while an increasing number of international projects come to India, Bollywood is headed in the opposite direction. Most of the big-ticket Hindi film productions are being shot overseas in destinations ranging from Singapore to New Zealand and Ireland to cater 8 to the taste of Indian audiences who also enjoy stories set in exotic locations, far from home.
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