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Posted on 09/30/2025 3:38:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
American President Donald Trump's decision to finally impose a massive 100% tariff — import duty or tax — on movies made outside the US comes as another major blow to India, which has been facing his wrath, with blips of bonhomie, for the past three months and more.
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The Indian diaspora in the US spends around $100 million a year to watch Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali and other Indian language movies released in the US country, according to the Producers Guild of India.
Indians are about 1.6% of the total US population, with other South Asians also being audiences of Indian language movies, such as Pakistanis for Punjabi and Hindi, Bangladeshi for Bengali, or Lankan Tamils, besides locals who enjoy diverse films.
Vivek Lath, a distributor of entertainment content, said in May: “US accounts for roughly 5-7% of box office revenues for Indian movies. Already stressed US theatre owners will not be happy with this and if the rest of the world reciprocates, Hollywood will also lose a large share of its international revenues. Let’s see how this plays out."
(Excerpt) Read more at hindustantimes.com ...
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The film features icon shots of New York like Brooklyn Bridge.
Check out the promo on Youtube.
Trump's new tariff will encourage more of this... and less filming in Canada or Australia. Maybe we can encourage Mel Gibson to do more films in America.
Oh I wouldn’t worry about that. Since the $100K fee on H1Bs, we can expect the 750,000 Indian H1B leaches in the US to be reduced to far fewer than 50,000. That will slash demand in the US for Bollywood slop, so the tariff on those flicks won’t really matter. God knows nobody else watches Bollywood movies.
Indian movies blow
Indian movies blow
“Indian” films are really big in America. ROTFL!
“Indian” films are really big in America. ROTFL!
This is only showed in theater or Netflix, YouTube etc are not subjected to it?
So, They could get around the tariff by making these movies in the US.
Problem solved.
If these movies are largely consumed by US based Indians it sounds like a win win.
You garbage posted 7 India articles about H1B visas while Russia pounded Kiev and several other cities with huge loss of life Lubiansk is about to fall, while the war of attrition saps away the will to fight. Seems their only chances are Tomahawks and Europe entering the fight, in other words, WW3.
What happened to your favorite post-spamming war cheerleading?
Look, squirrel! 🐿️
India hoes mad.
There is one Tamil movie, science fiction of all things, that takes the expression “wretched excess” to a whole new level. Called Enthiran (the robot). Check out this part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KP4d16a1Ak
It gets A LOT weirder from here.
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