Disney, UTV and the Indian Entertainment Industry

The Hindu has a report today about a subsidiary of Disney investing in India's UTV - an entertainment company. UTV is a company that has produced some very different kind of cinema in India that include Khosla Ka Ghosla, The Blue Umbrella (Chatri Chor) and now Jodha Akbar. While the former two I've mentioned here are good examples of some classic cinema, the latter is a huge budget cinema that would probably line up to Hollywood scale in technology. One of their earliest production seems to be the famous television soap Shanti. I still remember how everyone at our home used to sit together to watch this TV series like they watched Mahabharath earlier or like they watched Mayamrugra(Kannada) just few years back. The fact that UTV is getting huge investments could very well translate into some great new Indian cinema in coming years. Hopefully, UTV would look down south too. :)