New York, Oct. 26 -- The film industry is now again in a transition mode since the start of the 21st Century. It has been doing so from time to time, from the beginning. The silent era, the black-and-white era, the introduction of sound followed by colour and the experiments that followed. Like, the 70mm, Cinemascope, Panavision, Technicolor, mono sound to stereo to Dolby and multichannel. Transition from studio sets to outdoor locations to foreign shoots. From heavy static cameras to Steadicam to now digital camera, and from inflammable films to now discs. From 15 to 18-screen releases in metros to now in hundreds.

Subjects were copied, often from foreign films. There was this famous instant when a foreign studio sued a Hindi producer f...