The status of a manufacturing industry for cinema making is the expectation that with such recognition, the gate will be opened for foreign investment in this industry. The existing Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act has included motion picture business (produced in national languages) under the category of industries in which the foreign investment is not allowed. Though that restriction is thus not for movies that will be made in Nepal in other languages, the cine-entrepreneurs say, allowing foreign investment also in Nepali language movies will help to expand the market for the Nepali cinema industry. "This will help bring in foreign technologies and in exploring markets overseas", they think.