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Ironically, as jobs around the world get outsourced to India, the Indian film industry is looking for ghora (”light-skinned foreigners”) to populate movies and give them a more “cosmopolitan feel.” Of course, critics of ‘Bollywood’ will no doubt see this as confirmation that the industry increasingly adopts racism as a sure way to success. They would also point out that Bollywood with its substantial government support is a means to Sanskritise the natives, a “Brahminist Hollywood” as it were.