Hollywood has served as an inspiration to several Bollywood filmmakers for decades but now directors are exploring newer pastures such as French, Korean and Japanese cinema, , as reported by Hindustan Times.

Indian film director Ramesh Sippy who last directed Shah Rukh Khan's Zamaana Deewana in 1995 is returning to the industry with an adaptation of the French film De Vrais Mensonges (2010).

Karan Johar is slated to remake the 2006 French hit Hors De Prix with Sidharth Malhotra in a lead role, while another French film The Intouchables (2011) will be adapted by director Mohit Suri.

According to reports in the Indian media, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s comeback film Jazbaa is believed to be a remake of the 2007 Korean thriller Seven Days.

"Most Hollywood studios have set up shop in India, so filmmakers here can’t just lift their film’s ideas like earlier," said Jazbaa director Sanjay Gupta. "Also, if they have the rights, won’t they produce them on their own?"