Released in January 2009, Chandni Chowk to China was one of Bollywood’s most ambitious cross-cultural experiments. Directed by Nikhil Advani, the film starred Akshay Kumar as Sidhu, a simple cook from the crowded streets of Old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, who is mistaken for a reincarnated warrior and taken to China to defeat a ruthless villain, Hojo (played by Gordon Liu).