Can Bollywood go global?
Washington, June 21 Can Bollywood go global? A delegation of Indian film, television and music industry people is in the USA this week to persuade the US industry and investors it can. The delegation, headed by Sushma Swaraj, has so far visited major studios in Los Angeles and Motion Pictures Association of USA President Jack Valenti in Washington with the message that India wants to be an international player in entertainment. In that effort, New Delhi will be hoping to replicate the same phenomenal success it has enjoyed in global information technology, Indian business and government leaders said. “In the trinity of ICE, that is, infotech communication and entertainment, the last two, three years, especially in India, have seen considerable focus on IT and communication,” Swaraj said at the two-day U.S.-India Business Council conference in the U.S. capital ending on Wednesday. “However the entertainment sector has an equally vast potential,” she said. India, and the Mumbai movie ind
