Western movies, so called Hollywood movies do make big buisness in india. Unfortunately the indian you are in touch with looks like indian movie buff, cant blame him !
Well Indian movie industry is so huge, movies are produced in aprox 18 languages in india and they make big box office hit too !
Also indian movies are played not only in Asia but also in UK, US. I have big fans of Indian movies in Iran, Malaysia and heard about them in Russia.
In addition to this there are so many different kinds of entertainments like TV( 20 or more languages !) , drama, several classical and few hundreds folk dances going on.
As far as western music is concerned, many practice western numsic too....
to name a few A R Rahman who composed music for Brodway operas, Zubin Mehta who is main orchestra controller ( Not sure what they call to a person who guides few hundred musicians ) at New York Philharmonic orchestra.
I would end this small (!) response..... dont want to blow"India" trumpet so far and so loud.......
Western movies, so called Hollywood movies do make big buisness in india. Unfortunately the indian you are in touch with looks like indian movie buff, cant blame him !
Well Indian movie industry is so huge, movies are produced in aprox 18 languages in india and they make big box office hit too !
Also indian movies are played not only in Asia but also in UK, US. I have big fans of Indian movies in Iran, Malaysia and heard about them in Russia.
In addition to this there are so many different kinds of entertainments like TV( 20 or more languages !) , drama, several classical and few hundreds folk dances going on.
As far as western music is concerned, many practice western numsic too....
to name a few A R Rahman who composed music for Brodway operas, Zubin Mehta who is main orchestra controller ( Not sure what they call to a person who guides few hundred musicians ) at New York Philharmonic orchestra.
I would end this small (!) response..... dont want to blow"India" trumpet so far and so loud.......