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Scott and Manohla Dargis, selected their favorite movies of the year. That may not seem like much by the standards of Hollywood, where a blockbuster's takings are measured in the hundreds of millions, but it is a huge amount in a market where film budgets are typically less than $10 million. "Rang de Basanti," a film about a young British woman who inspires a group of Indian friends to shed their apathy and take pride in their country's heritage, has raked in $24 million at the box office since it was released in the winter.

The early results are giving Indian filmmakers, who are gathered here in unusually large numbers for the Cannes International Film Festival, reason to cheer.

Often, the only international audiences for these movies are members of the Indian diaspora, an estimated 25 million people of Indian origin who live in Britain, the United States, Southeast Asia and elsewhere.īut that may be about to change, as Bollywood starts to mirror broader shifts in the Indian economy by opening itself to globalization and adapting its products and business practices to international tastes.Įncouraged by the surprise success of several recent films by expatriate Indians, Bollywood studios are tinkering with time-honored traditions, dropping the campy song-and-dance routines and melodramatic plots in favor of more realistic fare.