Jammu, April 30 -- Bollywood has a long History of collaboration with Hollywood
By T N Ashok
From Amrish Puri's terrifying villain in Temple of Doom to Irrfan Khan's Oscar-adjacent brilliance, Indian actors have long graced Hollywood sets. Now, with 1.4 billion potential ticket buyers and a homegrown film industry that routinely out-muscles foreign competition, Hollywood's courtship of India has become less a creative choice and more an existential calculation.
In the summer of 1984, audiences around the world watched a silver-haired Indian actor named Amrish Puri tear a beating heart from a man's chest in a cave temple beneath the streets of an imaginary Pankot. As Mola Ram, the villain of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple...