Russians to view Bollywood movies again

The India TV channel has been launched in Russia to enable viewers to see the Bollywood movies. There are around 5.5 million viewers in Russia and it is expected that the number will grow to 50 million in a few months of launch of the channel.

In the soviet era the movies like Awara, Bobby, Disco Dancer and Sita aur Gita was able to draw 40 to 63 million viewers to theatres in Russia.