A combination of both the recession-hit show business industry in the UK and an increasing demand for white skinned performers in Bollywood have spurred an estimated 1,000 white British actors and dancers to move to Mumbai in the past three years, according to casting directors.
While the traditional roles filled by white women in Bollywood were as the exotic backing dancer, prepared to show off bare skin, actresses are now moving to Mumbai to establish serious film careers.
Hazel, 24, from Tunbridge Wells, has been in Mumbai for five years and is now well established on the Bollywood circuit, where she is known simply by her Christian name. She has ambitions far beyond being the clichéd white girl.
Interesting phenomenon.
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