Why World’s Richest Film Industry is Courting India?
Published on: May 1, 2026, 11:31 a.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
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 […]
