When it comes to geography, movies can be good at putting places on the map.

BEFORE we had all these travel channels that we have now and the Internet, most of us relied on movies to give us an inkling of what other countries looked like. An early example can be found in films from India; besides the local destinations around the vast Indian landscape featuring temples, serene villages and busy cities, the song sequences in a classic Bollywood film almost always take place at an European mountain side.