India's secret weapon for south asian dominance is the movies and TV shows. Thesedays many countries in south asia are following the Indian culture that they have learned through movies and TV shows. Not only are they following the culture, many viewers are learning the hindi language via constant exposure to it.

By seeping into an independent country's culture and lifestyle of the population, India has gained favorable status in it's economic, social and cultural expansion. In addition, it makes it easy for Indian people to migrate to other foriegn county to seek opportunities. Since late 1990s, there has been a relatively large acceptance of Indian movies and TV shows in Africa as well. Soon after, there was a huge exodus of Indians into Africa. You can see this expansion as small African children speak hindi language as well. Currently there are millions of Indians living in Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and other African countries.

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उल्फत्यांग हो कि बकम्फुसे हो कन्फुज भो

Indians have been take to africa and carrabian islands and all over the world by british as slave. All arabian countries watch hindi movies as 90% of their population are asian immigrants.

Lol !! I love Marvel movies and TV series.. does that mean Justice League is subliminally influencing me to wear Superman costume and drive a Batmobile ?  

I agree and disagree.

I agree because entertainment options, including movies and songs, have a huge impact on a culture. This is a well known fact. With access to a huge native crowdbase, and thus to huge financial and other resources, India can invest handsomely to produce high production entertainment values (movies, TVs, songs etc). While each of the smaller countries like Nepal has its own entertainment "industry," it is hard to compete against giants like Bollywood or Hollywood, hence the dominance is easy to see. India is expanding this dominance, in similar ways that Hollywood did. These dominance aren't limited to mere liking of the movies, but they affect your rationals and thinking subtly too. Why do people in Kathmandu prefer speaking in english? Some of it is because of the schools, a lot of it is because of the influence from Hollywood and British TV/movie industry. Some even argue that "whites" have created this perception of "superior" group, because of depiction of this race in Hollywood. If your heroes and idols are Americans, what kind of perception would you have about America? This translates to Bollywood movie. We might not like India's foreign policy and sometimes bullish/selfish aggression towards its neighbors, but we sure as heck like their stars and their movies.

I disagree because the original post almost makes it look like Bollywood is a product of the Indian propaganda to influence and take over the world. The cause and result relation is not so direct, I think. Sure India might try to cash-in on this popularity of Bollywood and try to spread its influence, but they almost certainly didn't start the industry for this purpose. It's not as if Indian Film Institute (NFDC) started funding big budget movies to take over the world, that's what the original post sounds like.

Movies and songs are part of culture. Entertainment is culture.
I met a guy from Bangladesh while travelling in France and even though we both spoke english fluently, he addressed me many times in hindi.
One of my american friends asked me if hindi could be called a language of Indian sub-continent just like english is considered international language.
This sums it all.
My recent observation is, the entire nation of Nepal, politically, socially, culturally is in degradation. It is not evolution or mutation, just plain simple degradation.