Bollywood has descended on the Cannes Film Festival with an array of offerings that reveal the ambitions of the world’s most prolific film industry to expand beyond India’s cinemas.

A film to be released by Eros International, the London-listed Bollywood distributor, will combine western stars Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards with Indian hero Akshay Kumar and female lead Kareena Kapoor in a production that hopes to appeal to foreign audiences.