One obvious response: South Asian and South Asian America film/tv aren't substitutable for one another.https://twitter.com/heerjeet/status/883789306632032256 …
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Bollywood films & shows have a much bigger global cultural impact than a US indie film.
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But not for Asian Americans desiring to see their social realities reflected back in mass media. One cannot serve in place of the other.
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But what people want is their sociocultural experience reflected back to them in mass media. Desiring social specificity isn't blindness.
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Um, Bollywood movies very popular with Desi diaspora, although not with cultural critics. So I'd say they are what (many) people want
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