The excitement that follows the news of an Indian actor working in a Hollywood project often gets nullified by the negligible screentime that is allotted to the actor in the film’s final cut. Think of Anil Kapoor in Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) and Irrfan Khan in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

However, that doesn’t really diminish the brouhaha associated with crossover cinema. With Nargis Fakhri making her Hollywood debut in Spy which also stars Jude Law, hitlist takes a look at Indian actors who are doing reasonably well in Hollywood but have chosen to stay away from Bollywood...