Although India is one of Sony's best regions, Michael Grindon, who runs the international side of the business for Mr Feltheimer, views the prospect with equanimity.
In these films, "female friendship supersedes heterosexual romance, " says Leger Grindon, a professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College and the author of a 2011 book about the genre.
"We'll have helicopters operating from those ships that, if required, can fulfil the whole range of missions - troop insertion, extraction of casualties, or British civilians that we need to pull out, " said Cdr Matthew Grindon, of 848 Squadron.