Queen of Bollywood

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Indian leading lady and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai leads the charge as 
a hipper, edgier, more professional Bollywood bids for global dominance. 
Nor is the traffic one way. Following 20th Century Fox's decision to pick 
up The Rising, the first Indian-made movie that a Hollywood studio will 
release worldwide, Warner Bros. and Columbia TriStar Films are both 
planning to distribute Bollywood films abroad. Going a step further, a 
handful of Western independents are inaugurating a rash of East-West 
coproductions using Bombay's cheap, skilled workforce. Shooting recently 
started on The King of Bollywood, with British supermodel Sophie Dahl; and 
winter should see production begin on Marigold, a story of an American B-
movie actress stranded in India. 

Source:
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501031027/story.html