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Quick-steps to a Bollywood hit

By Joe Leahy

Published: July 18 2007 03:00 | Last updated: July 18 2007 03:00

The setting is typical Bollywood glamour - a boardwalk over azure waters with beach huts in the background and a beautiful blue, if slightly pixellated, sky above.

The Hindi music kicks in and the dancer, a Bollywood hero in a gaudy jacket, starts clapping his hands and striking poses that would do John Travolta, or to use a more pertinent example, Indian movie star Hrithik Roshan, proud.

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