Cast: Om Puri, Pat Cusick, Navin Nischol, Perizaad Zorabian
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

He hates the movies with all his heart. He hates their black and white morality. He hates their happy endings. But he still happens to be in the movies, in B-grade Hollywood flicks, to be precise. Meet Pat Stormare (Pat Cusick), a down-at-the-heels action star whose life is turned upside down when he hits the bottle with a vengeance, his wife walks out on him in protest and, to make matters worse, his cancerous liver threatens to die on him. 
As death stares him in the face, Pat stumbles upon a new reason to live, a typically unreal role in a lost-and-found Hindi masala film titled Maut - The Death, which takes him all the way to Hyderabad and into the crazy, chaotic, crass world of Bollywood movies. The film's south Indian producer, Subramaniam (Om Puri), is over the moon with joy at the coup he has pulled off by getting a Hollywood star to work in his project. It is on the endearing interface between two diametrically opposite worlds that the Bollywood Calling script hinges. It yields many moments of sheer delight, only some of mild exasperation. 
Pat's exchanges with the temperamental Manu Kapoor (Navin Nischol), a 60-year-old veteran of over 200 films, the seductive Kajal (Perizaad Zorabian), an ambitious starlet who will do whatever it takes to get a move on in life, and the utterly clueless Subra help him see the real, human face of the Indian film industry. "Come aboard the merry-go-round. I can assure you, you will have a wonderful time," Kajal tells Pat in one of his early moments of self-doubt. He takes her for her word and, in the bargain, enjoys himself thoroughly. So, indeed, does the audience.