WikiLeaks reveals Bollywood secrets

MUMBAI: A leaked US diplomatic cable revealed by Wikileaks said that Bollywood welcomed funding from gangsters and politicians, known in India as "black money."

The cable said that in recent decades, the Bollywood film industry has been associated with the notorious Mumbai underworld, at the nexus of gangsters, money, and politics. Bollywood receiving funds from the underworld is nothing new and it believed to have started in the seventies.