ALL you need for a movie is a girl, a gun, lots of singing, melodrama and never-ending dance sequences. Or so a big chunk of the Indian audience believes. But Bollywood, the cosmopolitan Hindi-language film hub that is the spiritual home of the song-and-dance routine, has been bested by an upstart rival. "Baa-hubali 2: The Conclusion", a fantasy epic shot mainly in two southern Indian languages, has smashed the country's box-office records. Once in Bollywood's shadow, the likes of Kollywood and Tolly wood are coming into their own.
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