Kites was the first big-budget effort by the Hindi film industry to make a movie which would appeal to mainstream audiences in India and in Western countries.
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In this sense, Bollywood, as India's Bombay-based movie industry is called, is an apt name.
The film maker, who last shot in India in 1977 for Close Encounters of The Third Kind, is reportedly planning to co-produce a movie with Reliance, according to the Times of India newspaper, that will be set in Kashmir, on the India- Pakistan border, a region whose scenic beauty is marred by ongoing strife.