This is an interesting article about how Baz Luhrmann was influenced by Indian Bollywood movies in making Moulin Rouge. An excerpt:

Big, noisy, garishly colored and overflowing with music, Moulin Rouge could almost be mistaken for a Bollywood spectacular.

And that just might be what director Baz Luhrmann had in mind.

Luhrmann, who saw his first Bollywood movie on a trip to India in 1993, had wondered what would happen if he mixed their unabashed sentimentality, sexy dancing and loud music with a Hollywood formula, and Moulin Rouge is the happy result.

In a thrilling number marking the film's climax, Nicole Kidman dons a choli, the entire cast puts on bindis or turbans (some even wear both) in front of a lighted Taj Mahal backdrop, and a muscular blue god oversees the whole tamasha.

While Alka Yagnik and Anu Malik's hit Bollywood song "Chamma Chamma" pounds in the background, dozens of dancers in brilliantly detailed blue, gold and red costumes writhe on an enormous stage decorated with exotic Indian motifs.