Low-budget productions featuring unknown actors are becoming box-office successes in the Indian film industry, as making blockbusters with big-name stars becomes increasingly expensive.

Bollywood A-listers like Shah Rukh Khan and "The Big B" Amitabh Bachchan have dominated the industry in recent years, but aspiring directors now believe that success is possible without them -- and at a fraction of the cost.

Successful films made on a shoestring include maverick director Ram Gopal Varm

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