Xi and Modi take a break from security summit to talk Bollywood, report says
Chinese president said to have told Indian PM he’s a fan of Dangal, which has seen huge box office success in China
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were apparently talking movies, among other things, at a summit in Kazakhstan on Friday.
Xi mentioned that he, like millions of Chinese, had enjoyed the hit Bollywood film Dangal, according to a Press Trust of India report.
The movie – about an Indian man who allows his daughters to defy gender norms, training them to become world-class wrestlers – is known as Let’s Wrestle, Dad in China. It has seen phenomenal success since its release in the country on May 5, reaping more than 1 billion yuan (US$147 million) in box office revenues.
Xi, who has one daughter according to his official biography, reportedly mentioned to Modi that the film starring Aamir Khan was doing well in China while the pair were attending the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Astana.
That’s according to Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who was also quoted in the report as saying that Xi and Modi went on to discuss boosting cultural cooperation between the two countries.
The SCO is a Beijing-backed security grouping that facilitates counter-terrorism cooperation.
