Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan wants Bollywood to improve its special effects, and the actor is taking a three-month break to make his production company more technology savvy, a newspaper said on Friday.

India’s booming movie industry is the world’s most prolific but it has often lagged behind Hollywood — and even Asian neighbors Japan and China — in the use of technology.

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Until recently, a Bollywood action movie meant a collage of fight sequences in which punches rarely landed and kicks missed their targets by yards.

“I want our F-X to be comparable with the best in the world,” Khan, referring to a technical term for describing special effects, told the Mumbai Mirror daily.

“I want to spend the next three months honing up the F-X in our production house.”

With growing sophistication among audiences, Bollywood is being forced to revamp its technologically backward image and is hiring acclaimed special effects experts in a bid for bigger box office sales.

Now in some films actors are jumping off planes, scuffling for parachutes mid-air or speeding their cars under moving trucks in scenes straight out of big-budget Hollywood thrillers.

“Have you seen films like ‘300′? That’s the level of special effects we should be aiming at,” Khan, 41, said.