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Bollywood films are more successful in the UK than home-grown productions, with nine Indian productions making it into top ten and three scooping more than one million pounds at box office last year. A record 74 Indian films were released in the United Kingdom in 2005, compared to just 61 British productions. "During the last 12 months, nine Bollywood films have entered the top 10 list of films compared with just seven British ones," The Sunday Telegraph reported today. Bollywood films, which have achieved significant success in UK include Garam Masala, Krrish and Dosti: Friends Forever. Garam Masala, a romantic comedy, collected 2,92,033 pounds in its opening weekend, where as science fiction epic, Krrish made 210,499 pounds during the same period. The drama, Dosti: Friends Forever, which entered the UK box office chart at number five after grossing 146,069 in its opening weekend also made good business Each of the three films have now grossed around one million pounds. Almost one in six of all films released in Britain last year (16 per cent) were in Hindi, while Bollywood produced 11 of the 20 most successful foreign-language films released in the UK in 2005. Successful Bollywood films can now expect to make more than two million pounds at the British box office and, despite expensive publicity drives and all-star casts, a number of high-profile British productions have been eclipsed by Indian films, the report said. For example, Fanaa, a romantic drama, collected more than 3,00,000 pounds in its opening weekend, while The Libertine starring Johnny Depp, took 2,78,000 pounds over the same period. So far Fanaa has taken a total of 1,176,000 pounds, almost double that earned by The Libertine.

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