[webbrahmin]

I am a Netflix subscriber in India. The monthly subscription fee is Rs 800. Which is very high by Indian standards. A very small portion of Indian audience has taste for American shows. Some of Netflix's Indian shows have a political/ideological undertone which is not liked by a segment of audience. Netflix and Amazon both suffer from a very limited collection of Bollywood movies. These are some reasons IMHO.

[deltateam]

I've watched Indian movies that were controversial in India or some Indian states, and I can see how the western audience or curator could totally not understand what an Indian audience would agree with.

There was one Indian movie from 2004 that was controversial because it featured a lesbian couple. The movie had the typical bollywood love triangle, except the guy was ANGRY that the beautiful woman wanted to see another beautiful woman, along with seeing him. He expressed his anger and was trying to break up this "unholy arrangement" and correct the one woman into loving a man, and exclusively.

I'm more used to men expending all of their energy trying to get into situations with two beautiful women, and then accepting the improbability of two equally attractive and bi-sexual women existing.

So this movie was pure comedy to me, as well as the Indian state's extreme response. Just india things.

It is hard to understand the ideological assumptions of that pervasively conservative but kinda-wannabe-westernized society.

[Simon_says]

What's the political/ideological undertone?

[whatyoucantsay]

Netflix and its leadership are hard left. India, as a whole, is not.

[dingo_bat]

Amazon is much lower though @ ₹999/year. You also get fast shipping and music streaming.