Re: Is it true that more Indians read Pakistani English web newspapers than Pakistani
Agree that there is demand of bollywood movies / content that is why Pakistani channels show such content, but believe me there was no demand of Star Plus in initial days, but people started watching long run soaps as the Indian channels were accesible to people.
I’ve a blurred memory that in early 90s (before advent of Dish / cable system) people put there antennas on higher places to get transmission of Door Darshan here in Pakistan. I still receive messages from Indian viewers on my youtube channel telling how they also tried to get PTV transmission for watching PTV dramas. Its well known that PTV dramas were shown in Indian movie academies. Raj Kapoor himself approached Haseena Moin to write script of ‘Henna’, where Pakistani Zeba Bakhtiyar played the lead. Haseena Moin’s Dhoop Kinare was appreciated in India and later she wrote script of ‘Tanha’ for Star TV. Dhoop Kinare is recently adapted for Sony TV’s show ‘Kuch to log kahenge’. Besides that there are hundreds of songs which were copied on both sides of the border. There are movies which bollywood copied scene to scene from Pakistani movies. Even the latest hit ’ Munni Badnam hui’ is also inspired by 90’s Pakistani song of Umer Sharif’s movie.
The point of making this long list is that people from both the sides wants to watch each others production, but unfortunately in India, Pakistani content is not easily available as compared to Pakistan. 