Trump’s resolution to impose 100% tariff on non-U.S. films will affect income of Indian movies in U.S. market, says Producers Guild of India

The Indian diaspora within the U.S. spent roughly $100 million a yr to look at Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali and different Indian language films launched in U.S., stated, Producers Guild of India on Monday (Could 5, 2025).
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The Indian diaspora within the U.S. spent roughly $100 million a yr to look at Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali and different Indian language films launched in Uncle Sam’s nation, stated, Producers Guild of India on Monday (Could 5, 2025) in its response to Donald Trump’s resolution to impose 100% tariff on non-U.S. films.

Indians are the most important single-origin Asian group within the U.S., at some 5.2 million, accounting for 1.6% of the nation’s complete inhabitants.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 100% Tariff on function movies made exterior of the U.S. has dampened the spirit of Bollywood and remainder of the cinema fraternity throughout the nation.

Shibasish Sarkar, President, Producers Guild of India informed The Hindu that: “President Trump’s 100% tariff will affect any income which Indian movies generate within the U.S. market. Indian movies do roughly $100 million yearly. Positively there might be affect in footfall if ticket costs go up and it’ll additionally minimize into the share of producers.”

In keeping with Mr. Sarkar, not solely theatrical however another streams of income or enterprise coming from digital or satellite tv for pc or another platforms of income or enterprise from U.S. might be impacted.

Telugu instructions the most important share of Indian films launched within the U.S., adopted by Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi and all main Indian languages movies have theatrical and different kinds of releases within the U.S.

Ashish Kulkarni, an AVGC (Animation, Visible Results, Gaming, and Comics) trade knowledgeable and founding father of Pune-based manufacturing home, Screenyug Creations stated such unreasonable hike in tariff was fairly unfair and one mustn’t deprive the Indian diaspora of the tender energy (leisure content material) of their origin nation.

“Beneath such a excessive tariff regime, all channels of film exhibiting and film viewing might be impacted and turn into extra expensive. It’s going to total improve the price of content material consumption for the Indian diaspora,” added Mr. Kulkarni.