Anonymous wrote:We're not Indian but watched a Bollywood movie and three times during the movie my son mentioned the beautiful female lead looked like a girl in his class, had hair like her, had eyes like her. She is an Afghani refugee so different country and culture but he saw some similarity. I could tell he had a crush and glad he could see someone similar to her as a lead. He is such an open book.

I am Indian and I basically watch a lot of Hollywood, Bollywood, Pakistani dramas, Spanish shows (kid is taking Spanish in HS and wants to build up his language skills), Turkish serials (most good looking cast), Chinese dramas, Korean dramas.

I am cocky.

I am comfortable with all kinds of diversity. I also like to pick up other languages so right now it is Turkish phrases and Spanish. The beauty of living in this age is that you can access content from every part of the world. Why would you just watch FOX news?

I also read that Netflix is actively trying to court Indian subscribers right now

Anonymous wrote:Is this a real question? There's Netflix all over the world and India is a gigantic producer of content.

Agree this is a super weird question. Do you realize that India has a population three times the size of the US? Netflix is a global company. Lots and lots of Netflix subscribers in India.

S.No. Richest Actors in the World
Net Worth Nationality
1 Jerry Seinfeld $1 Billion American
2 Tyler Perry $1 Billion American
3 Dwayne Johnson $800 million American
4 Shah Rukh Khan $770 million Indian
5 Tom Cruise $620 million American
6 Jackie Chan $520 million Hong Kong
7 George Clooney $500 million American
8 Robert De Niro $500 million American
9 Arnold Schwarzenegger $450 million Austria, United States
10 Kevin Hart $450 million American
11 Mel Gibson $430 million American
12 Adam Sandler $420 million American
13 Mark Wahlberg $420 million American
14 Amitabh Bachchan $410 million India
15 Sylvester Stallone $400 million American
16 Larry David $400 million American
17 Jack Nicholson $400 million American
18 Tom Hanks $400 million American
19 Bill Cosby $400 million American
20 Keanu Reeves $385 million Canadian
21 Salman Khan $380 million Indian
22 Clint Eastwood $375 million American
23 Robert Downey Jr. $365 million American
24 Will Smith $350 million American
25 Michael Douglas $350 million American
26 Brad Pitt $300 million American
27 Edward Norton $300 million American
28 Harrison Ford $300 million American
29 Leonardo DiCaprio $300 million American
30 Denzel Washington $280 million American
31 Jet Li $265 million Singapore since 2009
32 Bruce Willis $255 million American

Bollywood has a lot of viewers in whole of Asia and Middle East. Bollywood (and other Indian regional cinema) churns out most movies than even Hollywood.


https://www.edudwar.com/richest-actors-in-the-world/

3 /32 richest actors are Bollywood actors. Remember that this is in dollars. Exchange rate is 1$ = 82 rupees. So someone like Jerry Seinfeld has made his entire fortune on one TV series, where as someone like SRK has made scores of movies.

Many bollywood heroines are not Indian - so your son might not be far off!

I think the international shows are the best content on Netflix right now.

Anonymous wrote:We're not Indian but watched a bollywood movie and three times during the movie my son mentioned the beautiful female lead looked like a girl in his class, had hair like her, had eyes like her. She is an Afghani refugee so different country and culture but he saw some similarity. I could tell he had a crush and glad he could see someone similar to her as a lead. He is such an open book.

So cute!

We're not Indian but watched a bollywood movie and three times during the movie my son mentioned the beautiful female lead looked like a girl in his class, had hair like her, had eyes like her. She is an Afghani refugee so different country and culture but he saw some similarity. I could tell he had a crush and glad he could see someone similar to her as a lead. He is such an open book.

Is this a real question? There's Netflix all over the world and India is a gigantic producer of content.

It likely has to do with the the high prevalence of east, middle and west Asians at the top Ivy League schools (think Harvard Yale, and brown versus Cornell) . This is where media organizations such as Netflix hire from; Specifically the writers. People write what they know. On a sidenote, the cont is great and the writing is excellent.

One other thing you might also notice is the obnoxious references to top colleges in all shows. And even worse jabs at colleges that aren’t known to be top colleges. (just think of all of the references to Ivy League schools and comments like “I’m scared she’ll end up at a state school”. It’s really snobby and it’s absurd. This is also due to the writers coming from ivy leagues.

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of Korean content.

Same. Like tons and the only Korean thing I've ever watched is squid games.

What I really like are BBC historical dramas, but nope, Netflix isn't paying BBC for those.

I watched RRR and now I want more!

They also have a ton of Spanish shoes, Latin American shoes etc. since all the major US companies have their own streaming service s and yanked their content off Netflix, Netflix got creative and found a new way. Same as they did when people stopped using DVDs (which was their original business). They are very agile, which I admire. And they brought us Money Heist and Derry Girls which otherwise we maybe never would have seen! It turns out there is a bunch of really interesting stuff being made outside of the US. I also recommend Occupied and Kleo.

Interesting. I watched one show in French and now everything they suggest to me is French related. If you saw my Netflix feed, you would think that all the content is French, with a little Italian thrown in for good measure.

I think it’s just about what you have looked at and they show you more of the same.