And that’s just what China’s President Xi Jinping did when he sat down in Kazakhstan on Friday with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hash out the disputes that confront the world’s two biggest countries. As Xi surely knows, there’s scarcely anything, aside from cricket and religion, that can stir the passions of Indians so deeply. According to India’s Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, President Xi told Prime Minister Modi that he had watched the film—now the 20th highest-grossing in Chinese box office history—and he had liked it. And as it happens, Dangal deals with these issues in ways that resonate deeply for Indian and Chinese audiences alike. And yet, rather ironically, with Dangal he has done more for India's image and promotion in China than almost anyone else.

Source: Forbes June 10, 2017 03:22 UTC