West Asia war may claim an unlikely casualty — Indian films’ run overseas

Over 9 million Indian expatriates reside in West Asia, primarily within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), making it the largest concentration of Indian diaspora globally. The South Indian diaspora in West Asia, particularly from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka, forms a massive expatriate community, primarily in United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar.