Mumbai is the glittering epicentre of India's gargantuan Hindi-language film industry, and they are often looking for Western extras.

BBC: Mumbai: India's Tinseltown

Foreign money has poured into Mumbai's flamboyant Hindi-language film industry, which churns out more than 1, 000 films each year.

CNN: Financial drama hits Bollywood as accountants go on set

Rajesh Mishra was a journalist for the local Hindi-language weekly, Media Raj.

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Mumbai is home to major financial institutions such as the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Reserve Bank of India, as well as Bollywood, the movie industry that produces around 1, 000 Hindi-language movies and musicals a year in Film City, a complex of studios, backlots and landscapes.

BBC: Living in: Mumbai

Over the past two decades, many directors who have come to Bollywood cannot read in Hindi, the language of the film.

BBC: Can Indian cinema go global?

Despite their proximity and the absence of a language barrier -- Hindustani, an amalgam of Hindi and Urdu, is understood by both north Indians and Pakistanis -- only 1.2% of Pakistan's exports go to India, while the import tally is a mere 0.7%.

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