Best Place to Dream of Stardom

Want to make it in the movie business but feel deterred by the cutthroat competition? Then head to Bombay. As the world's most prolific film industry, with up to a hundred movies being shot at any one time, Bollywood is always especially short of foreign extras. Unless you have some training, dancing parts are probably a step too far. But even the most leaden-footed should be able to find parts in the epic crowd scenes that are a hallmark of the industry. If you're a blond woman or can play the part of, say, a merciless colonial Brit, you might just...