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| | village voice > news > Straight outta Mumbai, Indian pop cinema is making American inroads, from cinematic allusions ... |
 | | Shekhar Kapur, Indian director of the luminous, Oscar-nominated biopic Elizabeth, is co-producing. |
 | | Bollywood's hallmark exuberance may be paling, however, says Lee Server, author of Asian Pop Cinema: Bombay to Tokyo, with a shift toward films that are more self-consciously restrained and polished. |
 | | There is Kaante—a Reservoir Dogs-type heist caper starring Amitabh "Big B" Bachchan, the Godfather of Indian cinema—which has the distinction of being the first Bollywood film to be shot entirely in the United States with an American crew. |
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