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    Considering the massive Indian population and our growing inclination towards watching more and more Hollywood movies, every studio in the world wishes to make the most money out of it.
    With time, a trend can be seen in English films where an Indian actor or that of an Indian origin has been cast for very limited screen time but has been made to see as a major part of the film, especially around the time it’s about to be released in India. 
    Here are five times when Hollywood cast Indian actors for minor roles & we got fooled:
    1. Ali Fazal - Furious 7 (Screen Time: <100 Seconds)
    Ali Fazal’s role of Safar, an Emirati garage owner and a good friend of Megan Ramsey’s friend, lasts for less than 100 seconds of screen time, most of it talking about a badass car being kept in a penthouse.
    To be fair to the actor, he acknowledged that his role in the film was nothing more than a cameo and that he wouldn’t make anything big of it. 
    2. Anil Kapoor - Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Screen Time: <165 Seconds)
    With Slumdog Millionaire and 24, Anil Kapoor did become a rather familiar Indian face in the English film industry and when news of the star being a part of Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol first came out, his Indian fans were ecstatic.
    And then we saw him as Brij Nath in the film who played hide and seek for most of his screen time and then ended up unconscious in his bedroom literally a couple of minutes later.
    3. Irrfan Khan - Jurassic World (Screen Time: <250 Seconds)
    Even after doing some great work like The Namesake and Life of Pi, when late actor Irrfan Khan was cast as Simon Masrani, he was just another ‘Not-so-important’ good guy in the film who showed up for a couple of seconds at the beginning of the film and then during the third act only to die.

    Incidentally, Khan had a similar screen presence in The Amazing Spider-Man in which he shares the frame with Rhys Ifans for a few scenes before ending up dead on the Brooklyn Bridge. 
    4. Amitabh Bachchan - The Great Gatsby (Screen Time: <275 Seconds)

    Even someone of Amitabh Bachchan’s stature couldn’t make it past the five-minute mark in a Hollywood film. Despite packing a stellar and impactful performance as Meyer Wolfsheim, a flamboyant and suave Jewish moneylender, Bachchan was only seen for a single scene in the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. 
    T 1045 - "The Great Gatsby" official opening film for Cannes Film festival, May 15th..come one come all..half blink and you miss role for me
    — Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) March 12, 2013
    Even while promoting the film on Twitter, Big B wrote: “The Great Gatsby official opening film for Cannes Film festival, May 15th…come one come all…half blink and you miss role for me (sic).”
    5. Pankaj Tripathi - Extraction (Screen Time: <55 Seconds)
    Even though Randeep Hooda had a significant role in the film (and I truly appreciate it), it was the extremely limited screen time given to Pankaj Tripathi that shocked me. Playing the role of an Indian gangster whose son was abducted in the movie, Tripathi appeared for less than a minute’s role in the movie.
    In an interview with The Indian Express, Tripathi said: “Though my role is a cameo, it’s a pivotal character”.

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