Article: INDIA AND HOLLYWOOD: FOR HALF A CENTURY, A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP.(Entertainment)

During the past 50 years, no two countries have had a stranger cinematic relationship than India and the United States.

Since independence, India has - until very recently - used strict quota laws to keep most of Hollywood's products out, while building its own native industry into a powerhouse, the world's largest-volume producer.

Meanwhile, except for an occasional art film, the United States has shown no interest in importing any of the thousands of films India has made in these decades, under the theory they're so inane and foreign to our sensibilities that even film festivals won't play them.

And yet, India has happily allowed Hollywood ...

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