Yes, that I agree! The popularity of Bollywood and regional cinema in overseas countries is due to the ever increasing Indian population in those respective countries. But certain actors enjoy a good fan following among non-Indians too. For example, Shahrukh khan has an increasing fan following among non-Indians in the US and UK. Tamil actor Rajnikanth's films are very eagerly watched by the Japanese people (they await his films just like his fans in South India await).
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What are you basing SRK's popularity in the US on? If you want Ill ask all my co-workers on Monday and I guarantee you maybe 1 or 2 will know who he is.
And if its off MNIK then I think you might be mistaken. Any non-Indian American who saw that film would probably not be too big a fan of SRK.
And if its off MNIK then I think you might be mistaken. Any non-Indian American who saw that film would probably not be too big a fan of SRK.
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I think it would be an interesting experiment. Ask 10 random people at your work if they know who he is. I bet at least one will know he is a cricketer based on the question in SlumDog.
That 1 or 2 that will know SRK wont know almost all of the other Indian actors. I have watched all of SRK's films here in theatres and I have seen American audience come in to watch his films. For 'My Name is Khan', a few American girls (with no Indian friends) came together and watched the film along with us. This has been the case for all of SRK's recent films which have been screened here in the US.
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Ok Sai but that small niche crowd that appreciates Indian culture is not big enough to call a "a good fan following among non-Indians"
My point being that the culture is a lot less known than other ones like for say Japanese culture. I bet you anything more people in America will recognize some weird obscure Anime character than SRK.
The only Indians here well known are only ethnically Indian, people like Aziz Ansari, Fareed Zaqaria, Kal Penn, Shamalan, Aasif Mandvi, Bobby Jindel etc. Those guys are hardly Indian, they are apple pie.
My point being that the culture is a lot less known than other ones like for say Japanese culture. I bet you anything more people in America will recognize some weird obscure Anime character than SRK.
The only Indians here well known are only ethnically Indian, people like Aziz Ansari, Fareed Zaqaria, Kal Penn, Shamalan, Aasif Mandvi, Bobby Jindel etc. Those guys are hardly Indian, they are apple pie.
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Bollywood will never find popularity among the American crowd, ever. Americans love uninterrupted gripping movies where Indians love musical romance and require dancing and singing in all other types of movies regardless, which is a GIANT turnoff for the American audience.When a foreigner thinks of Hollywood he thinks Sly Stallone, Willis, Tom Cruise, Arnold etc not Ashton Kutcher.
Anurag Kashyap is trying to change all this in Bollywood though. Black Friday is by far, THE BEST underworld/terrorism movie I have ever seen. Nothing in Hollywood comes close (Munich, Syriana, The Kingdom). Dev D is better than Requiem For A Dream, seriously. And Gulaal is just awesome in its own way but since his movies don't have dancing and singing, his movies bomb. Sucks really, this man needs to come to Hollywood and win an Oscar.
Anurag Kashyap is trying to change all this in Bollywood though. Black Friday is by far, THE BEST underworld/terrorism movie I have ever seen. Nothing in Hollywood comes close (Munich, Syriana, The Kingdom). Dev D is better than Requiem For A Dream, seriously. And Gulaal is just awesome in its own way but since his movies don't have dancing and singing, his movies bomb. Sucks really, this man needs to come to Hollywood and win an Oscar.
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It's not always about romantic movies though. We have films like Rajneeti, Raavan and all to be released soon which are something more than musical love stories. Anurag Kashyap's "I Am" is slated to be released in 2010 as well.
I, for one, feel that the taste of an average Indian audience is slowly changing which shows from the fact that films like Pyar Impossible, Chance Pe Dance, Dulha Mil Gaye having a hell lot of singing/dance scenes in them failed at the box office.
I, for one, feel that the taste of an average Indian audience is slowly changing which shows from the fact that films like Pyar Impossible, Chance Pe Dance, Dulha Mil Gaye having a hell lot of singing/dance scenes in them failed at the box office.
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I've never seen a bollywood film. Didn't even know what it was until last year. (Indian movies, right?)
1 in 5 NZers will know who Sachin Tendulkar is, probably even less. (just adding to the conversation from a NZ perspective)
1 in 5 NZers will know who Sachin Tendulkar is, probably even less. (just adding to the conversation from a NZ perspective)
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Amen to that!!
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