Updated On: 08 July, 2012 08:10 AM IST | | J Kothari & Pooja Thanawala
After a phase where most films were set in posh high rises and urbane foreign locations, Bollywood is witnessing a return to a more rural, earthy setting. The success of stories based in small towns ufffd be it Rowdy Rathore, Gangs of Wasseypur or Paan Singh Tomar, has filmmakers flocking to dress their heroines in ghaghra cholis and give their heroes a desi twang
In the prelude to the Rowdy Rathore number Tera ishq bada teekha, Akshay Kumar (as part of an inside joke) asks Sonakshi Sinha whether they should go abroad to sing and dance to the song. Sonakshi thumbs down the idea, preferring instead to celebrate in India, amidst local bucolicu00a0splendour.u00a0

Actor Richa Chhada in a still from Anurag Kashyap’s recently-released Gangs of Wasseypur, in which she played actor Manoj Bajpai’s wife