Believe it or not three Bollywood blockbusters – Don, Dhoom and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna – are presently the three most popular films in Brazil.

The movies are drawing huge crowds everyday at various cinema halls across the vast South American Country, claimed well-known Brazilian film producer Mauricio Andrade Ramos.

Speaking at the ongoing 12th Kolkata Film Festival, after the screening of the film produced by him Brasilla 18%, Ramos said since the new Left Democrat government came to power about six years ago, the cultural ties between India and Brazil have become far more stronger.

As a result, he said, more and more Indian films, mostly popular Hindi movies, were being screened in different Brazilian cities including Rio-De-Janeiro, Sao Paolo and the capital Brasilia and drawing large audience everywhere.

Describing it as a new trend among the young Brazilian movie goers, Ramos, however, felt that ultimately in the long run it might have an adverse affect on the Brazilian film industry, which produce about 70 to 80 films every year.

He said in absence of any film censorship in his country for long, the quality of most of the Brazilian made cinema was unsatisfactory.

"As such only about five films could come up to the world standard every year and become eligible for showing in different international festivals," he added.

He, however, fully subscribed to the idea that Brazilian film industry has to learn a lot from their Indian counterparts particularly in the areas of film production and other technical aspects and felt that because of these qualitative differences and for a pure sense of entertainment most of the Indian films have been drawing large crowds in Brazil and several other South American countries like Chile and Paraguay.

Speaking about his own film, which directed by renowned Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira Dos Santos and shown house full in the festival last night, Ramos said the storyline centred around a tangled web of corruption that seemingly touches everyone's heart.

Asked about the impact of Hollywood movies in his country, like the same facing by some of his Latin American neighbouring countries, Ramos blamed them for allegedly creating a new senseless generation' to whom sex and violence are the ultimate entertainment.