Global discourse
Global discourse Indians during the colonial rule bought film equipment from Europe. The British funded wartime propaganda films during World War II , some of which showed the Indian army pitted against the axis powers, specifically the Empire of Japan, which had managed to infiltrate into India. One such story was Burma Rani, which depicted civilian resistance offered to Japanese occupation by the British and Indians present in Myanmar. Pre-independence businessmen such as J. F. Madan and Abdulally Esoofally traded in global cinema. Indian cinema's early contacts with other regions became visible with its films making early inroads into the Soviet Union, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and China. Mainstream film stars like Raj Kapoor, Rajnikanth, Rajesh Khanna, Madhuri Dixit, Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan gained international fame across Asia and Eastern Europe....