Also read - India can change cinema, with a little help from Hollywood
Five decades ago, the late legendary actress Nargis bemoaned the glorified portrayal of poverty by Satyajit Ray’s films to win international acclaim, easily forgetting a similar portrayal in her magnum opus Mother India.
For long, the famous maxim that East is East and West is West and the twain shall never meet was also considered equally applicable for two film industries - namely Hollywood and Bollywood - but box-office bonanzas were generated by films such as Jungle Book, serial films like Iron Man, Batman, Spiderman et al.
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