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INDIA: Hollywood joins forces with Bollywood
The courtship between Hollywood and Bollywood continues with Killing Fields director Roland Joffe’s Singularity. Currently shooting in India, the time-travel epic features Bollywood star Bipasha Basu and Josh Hartnett as star-crossed lovers whose saga spans 18th century colonial India to the present. If rumors are to be believed, an even more high-profile connection between the film sectors is in the works: There is talk that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will join Leonardo DiCaprio in writer-director Paul Schrader’s upcoming drama Xtreme City. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Khan could also co-produce the film via his Red Chillies banner with Martin Scorsese.