Anyone who grew up in India speaks fluent Bollywood. Or at the least knows all the Bollywood gossip because after all, “Bade bade shehron mein aisi chhoti chhoti baatein hoti rehti hai, Senorita !!” But those sudden outbursts of co-ordinated dancing you saw growing up — the ones where even the Caucasian extras in Rahul’s college knew all the steps — are moving further away from reel and into real. For decades, people across the globe have been hooked to Bollywood — the clothes, the dances, the actors and the songs forming the vocabulary of this diplomacy by entertainment.
India’s hottest export has danced its way into the homes of fans the world over. Like these far-flung destinations where a mention of your favourite Shah Rukh Khan movie is more likely to win you a new friend that those three months you spent on Duolingo.
7 countries that love Bollywood as much as we do:
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