Big names and big budgets largely fell flat in Bollywood in 2010, analysts said, but the year at least saw new directors emerge unafraid to push the boundaries to cater for a changing audience.

India's popular Hindi-language film industry was expected to turn around its fortunes in 2010, after the previous 12 months saw revenues slump due to the effects of the global economic crisis, a producers' strike and swine flu fears. But few major releases were a success and instead many of the plaudits went to smaller productions with young directors, casts of relative unknowns and innovative scripts.