While Indian filmmakers fight the Censor Board — in the age of the internet when all sorts of content is available to all kinds of audiences — Hollywood imports have begun to make a serious impact on the box-office in this country.
Perhaps it is time to urgently look outward as well as inward if Indian cinema is not to lose ground to a double whammy of foreign imports hurting a local industry forced to become too tame for the international palate.
Most telling is the Australian film Lion produced with foreign investment and selling to the. . .