Chak De India won Best Picture at the awards, and was shot partly in Melbourne and Sydney.

AN INDIAN movie partly made in Melbourne has taken out top honours at the "Bollywood Oscars."

Chak De India won Best Picture at the awards, and was shot partly in Melbourne and Sydney.

It features 90 Australian hockey players and more than 9,000 Aussie extras.

Also shot in India, the movie tells the story of a Muslim captain of the Indian field hockey team who leaves the game after being wrongly accused of throwing a World Cup match against Pakistan.

After disappearing for seven years, he returns to coach the Indian women’s team, by coaching them to World Cup victory on tour in Australia.

The movie was inspired by the Indian women’s hockey team’s surprise win at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.

Locations included key Melbourne landmarks: The Yarra River and Southbank precinct,Carlton Gardens and the rejuvenated Docklands dining precinct.

Directed by Shimit Amin, the movie also took in keysporting venues, such as Telstra Dome and the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre.

The movie also picked up the the best film at the 5th Australian Indian Film Festival last year and has been a hit with Australians.

It was the third highest grossing movie of 2007 in India, and the second Bollywood movie in the last three years to be shot in Australia.

Salaam Namaste was filmed entirely in Melbourne and regional Victoria in 2005.

More than 500 Indian stars travelled to Thailand to attend the ceremony in Bangkok.