When a poor Indian boy and the daughter of the village’s richest man fall in love, he has one month to complete a quest given by Kamadeva to find the worlds most precious treasure, otherwise she’ll be married to another.

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Richiev, if you study Bollywood, you will find that they are facing a revolution.
Studios have to decide if they target a purely domestic audience or if they want an International one.
That distinction is huge, not only on the budget but also in the theme, the style of filming, the stars, script, music, ...
For example most Western films are based on a three acts structure, Bollywood movie are based on a two parts because of the usual break/intermission.
Nearly all Bollywood movies rely on songs, but because of language barrier, those big musical movie can't find an international audience outside of the Indian diaspora.
Songs and stars are more important than a good script for a Bollywood movie success.
Most Bollywood stars have no appeal outside of the Indian local and international audience. That means that Indian movies can't rely on big Indian star to attract international viewers.

The strange result is that Indian films that have been successful internationally have done poorly locally.
For example Slumdog millionaire was not a great success in India.
Also because of cultural differences, some subjects are still taboo or at least not often touched in Indian movies: place of women in society, rape, ...

So when writing a movie, decide first if it is going for an Indian audience or an international one.

Just to complicate things even further, Bollywood is also now starting to realise that there is third generation Indian diaspora. They look, eat, speak India, but they are very much westernised. I have read recently of a studio filming a Bollywood movie in English for such audience.

Have you pitched the idea to them to gauge their reaction?

As writers, we're supposed to explore and discover new ideas. But in these fiercely competitive times for production money and viewers' attention, I think we also have to do our market research, know our target audience. Especially for markets foreign to our residence or experience.

Just saying.

When I originally created this idea I was going to create a fantasy world but there are several people from India where I work and realized this story could be told in an ancient Indian setting.

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