We are excited to bring to you an IMDb experience catered to the interests of the millions of movie & TV fans in India. Today we launched www.imdb.com/india. Now, in addition to using IMDb as the authoritative destination for international films and TV shows, you can rely on us as an entertainment destination that will keep you up to date on the latest and greatest Indian movies.
Bookmark www.imdb.com/india/trending to stay current with “What’s Trending in India” across upcoming movies and celebrities,updated daily.
You can now plan your movie nights based on the “IMDb TopRated Indian Movies” list that includes movies in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam,Telugu, and Bengali. The list is ranked by a rigorous formula which includes the number of ratings each movie received among other criteria. To complement the movie recommendations based on inputs from IMDb users, you will also discover recommendations based on our editors picks. Our editors put me through an Amitabh Bachchan quiz today. I scored a measly 5/10 – clearly I have more BigB movie watching to do.
I am proud and humbled to see millions of people across the world using IMDb every day. IMDb was born out of my personal film diary and lifelong obsession with cinema. IMDb’s first version was the simple database I created on my computer of every film I saw since the age of 13. I encourage you to visit IMDb and join the community of passionate movie fans across the world.I have 234 Indian movies on my watchlist currently, and my most memorable Indian film is 3 Idiots (2009). What is yours? Tell us using the hashtag #IMDbIndia
Col Needham,
CEO & Founder
Bookmark www.imdb.com/india/trending to stay current with “What’s Trending in India” across upcoming movies and celebrities,updated daily.
You can now plan your movie nights based on the “IMDb TopRated Indian Movies” list that includes movies in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam,Telugu, and Bengali. The list is ranked by a rigorous formula which includes the number of ratings each movie received among other criteria. To complement the movie recommendations based on inputs from IMDb users, you will also discover recommendations based on our editors picks. Our editors put me through an Amitabh Bachchan quiz today. I scored a measly 5/10 – clearly I have more BigB movie watching to do.
I am proud and humbled to see millions of people across the world using IMDb every day. IMDb was born out of my personal film diary and lifelong obsession with cinema. IMDb’s first version was the simple database I created on my computer of every film I saw since the age of 13. I encourage you to visit IMDb and join the community of passionate movie fans across the world.I have 234 Indian movies on my watchlist currently, and my most memorable Indian film is 3 Idiots (2009). What is yours? Tell us using the hashtag #IMDbIndia
Col Needham,
CEO & Founder
Col Needham, Official Rep
Posted 4 years ago
Hi Hersh, Raj, and Dhvl,
Thanks for raising your concerns. Currently, there is no way of filtering out Indian moviecontent from the IMDb India Homepage. The Indian movie and celebrity content iscomplementary to the comprehensive Hollywood content coverage that we've beenproviding for years. We are continuing to showcase relevant US movie contentand news on IMDb. To see Hollywood news only, you may click on the 'Hollywood'tab within the Latest News section on the homepage. We are always updatingcontent and features based on what resonates most with customers. We'llcontinue to keep an eye on the content that gets most engagement, and willaccordingly update the IMDb homepage.
Best,
Kurt
Thanks for raising your concerns. Currently, there is no way of filtering out Indian moviecontent from the IMDb India Homepage. The Indian movie and celebrity content iscomplementary to the comprehensive Hollywood content coverage that we've beenproviding for years. We are continuing to showcase relevant US movie contentand news on IMDb. To see Hollywood news only, you may click on the 'Hollywood'tab within the Latest News section on the homepage. We are always updatingcontent and features based on what resonates most with customers. We'llcontinue to keep an eye on the content that gets most engagement, and willaccordingly update the IMDb homepage.
Best,
Kurt
What everyone up said + what raj said.
I don't come to IMDb for Indian content. I am more interested in Hollywood content, Indie movies, European movies, etc. There are a million sites for Indian content. I would quickly lose interest in IMDb if all I see everywhere is Indian trailers and Indian lists and Indian celebs.
Please have a setting to disable India specific content for those who don't want to see it.
I don't come to IMDb for Indian content. I am more interested in Hollywood content, Indie movies, European movies, etc. There are a million sites for Indian content. I would quickly lose interest in IMDb if all I see everywhere is Indian trailers and Indian lists and Indian celebs.
Please have a setting to disable India specific content for those who don't want to see it.
Came here to say exactly what everybody is saying above. I am extremely unhappy with this change in the website. There ought to have been a simple option to change your home page to the international version. Now it is overrun by Bollywood news and celebrities. I have no interest in this, and I do not come to IMDb to read about these things.
Please please make changes to this. As a daily visitor of your website for the last 10 years at least, this is a big issue for me. The biggest problem is there is nowhere else I can go, but IMDb.
Please please make changes to this. As a daily visitor of your website for the last 10 years at least, this is a big issue for me. The biggest problem is there is nowhere else I can go, but IMDb.
Someone tweeted another related request:
https://twitter.com/*/status/809411075993206785
https://twitter.com/*/status/809411075993206785
Hi Kurt
There are tons and tons of dedicated local websites and the news media that covers the Indian content and pester the netizens with unwanted gossip.
The only reason I am using IMDb is such that to know more about world cinema and TV.
Now your home page looks just like a crappy bollywood fan site that pay homage to the world cinema by dedicating a column or two. And who gives a fuck about real time trends in Indian movies when we already know the best movies playing around us , not to mention India is a diverse country that speaks multiple languages and local trends vary drastically like nowhere else in the world . Following this trend I believe you guys will even start Indian TV spotlights and trends...
(Nooooooo.......... Superman.jpg).
We appreciate the changes you guys did keeping the audience in mind but what you have actually done is destroying the only sanctuary we had.
Kindly roll back the change (you can keep a column or two for local content , not the other way around)
Please.... We don't want this.
There are tons and tons of dedicated local websites and the news media that covers the Indian content and pester the netizens with unwanted gossip.
The only reason I am using IMDb is such that to know more about world cinema and TV.
Now your home page looks just like a crappy bollywood fan site that pay homage to the world cinema by dedicating a column or two. And who gives a fuck about real time trends in Indian movies when we already know the best movies playing around us , not to mention India is a diverse country that speaks multiple languages and local trends vary drastically like nowhere else in the world . Following this trend I believe you guys will even start Indian TV spotlights and trends...
(Nooooooo.......... Superman.jpg).
We appreciate the changes you guys did keeping the audience in mind but what you have actually done is destroying the only sanctuary we had.
Kindly roll back the change (you can keep a column or two for local content , not the other way around)
Please.... We don't want this.
Time to change to rotten tomatoes.com
Anyone who is interested in removing "Trending Movies" Widget, you can follow simple tweak.
I have made a blog post here with step by step guide.
https://trekwho.quora.com/How-to-Block-Disable-Trending-Indian-Movies-on-IMDb
I agree with everyone here, that IMDb is not the best choice/option for Indian Movies/Content.
There are plenty of website doing these already. And, Frankly, Hardly any movies are good to be showcased as you do. If its for advertising then its a discussion.
Even on the homepage, I feel the balance is not right. Too much focus is placed on Local content.
I have made a blog post here with step by step guide.
https://trekwho.quora.com/How-to-Block-Disable-Trending-Indian-Movies-on-IMDb
I agree with everyone here, that IMDb is not the best choice/option for Indian Movies/Content.
There are plenty of website doing these already. And, Frankly, Hardly any movies are good to be showcased as you do. If its for advertising then its a discussion.
Even on the homepage, I feel the balance is not right. Too much focus is placed on Local content.
Thanks for that. Just wanted to point out that one does not need a separate extension for this. If you have an ad-blocker extension, they usually have an element picker mode also.
But this only solves a very small part of the problem. We still have the ENTIRE main page to deal with. All the international trailers are gone and replaced with indian ones, that awful Indian movies live-ratings widget is there, and you have to scroll even further for the usual stuff like actor b'days, and recent releases and spotlight etc.
Its just so disappointing that a company like IMDb did not think through on this feature enough to make it optional. Not only is this a pain for Indians that came to IMDb for international cinema, but also for foreign tourists and the like, who will also have Indian content shoved down their throats involuntarily.
But this only solves a very small part of the problem. We still have the ENTIRE main page to deal with. All the international trailers are gone and replaced with indian ones, that awful Indian movies live-ratings widget is there, and you have to scroll even further for the usual stuff like actor b'days, and recent releases and spotlight etc.
Its just so disappointing that a company like IMDb did not think through on this feature enough to make it optional. Not only is this a pain for Indians that came to IMDb for international cinema, but also for foreign tourists and the like, who will also have Indian content shoved down their throats involuntarily.
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Yes, I agree completely.
Like I said before, this is only a tweak to make it less annoying, its not a solution.
Solution has to be provisioned by IMDb.
Like I said before, this is only a tweak to make it less annoying, its not a solution.
Solution has to be provisioned by IMDb.
gromit82, Champion
Col: I'm in the USA. Whenever I go to a new name or title page on IMDb, I get a yellow banner that says "INDIA SPOTLIGHT: Discover movies and TV shows popular in India. Learn more." However, it only appears on screen for about 2 seconds before disappearing on its own. If I did want to go to the India page, I wouldn't have enough time to react to the banner and click on it.
So I don't think this banner is currently serving a purpose. If you are trying to promote the India Spotlight site to all users throughout the world, you should leave the banner on screen long enough to give people time to click on it. On the other hand, I personally don't plan to use the India Spotlight site on a regular basis, so I don't need to have it promoted to me at all.
So I don't think this banner is currently serving a purpose. If you are trying to promote the India Spotlight site to all users throughout the world, you should leave the banner on screen long enough to give people time to click on it. On the other hand, I personally don't plan to use the India Spotlight site on a regular basis, so I don't need to have it promoted to me at all.
gromit82, Champion
Col: I'm no longer seeing the banner appear on every page for 2 seconds, so that problem appears to be resolved.
Install a VPN proxy add-on/extension in your browser and request the non-India homepage. I'm using Touch VPN of chrome. It works like a charm!
Point is, one should not need to install a VPN to access content they want to see on a site as big as IMDb. Users should be given the option to choose what version of the website they want to see.
Are there any people who are welcoming this change? May be I'm looking in the wrong place, but would be interesting to know if anyone actually likes this.
Personally, if I were paying IMDB to access their website, this would be a good time to reconsider. Anyway, for now I'm using a workaround to access the regular site. But I hope IMDB listens to the popular voice and if not remove this thing, at least, give its users an option to choose the content they want to see.
Personally, if I were paying IMDB to access their website, this would be a good time to reconsider. Anyway, for now I'm using a workaround to access the regular site. But I hope IMDB listens to the popular voice and if not remove this thing, at least, give its users an option to choose the content they want to see.
You're missing the point. The point being to ASK the demographic or people they're targeting whether they actually need the change they made. Another point being to give an option to people who want the status quo. That's how anything works in a democratic environment. Making changes people don't want without any research or an opt-out is indicative of how little they think of the people they're serving their content to. Also, a vast majority of people here are asking for an opt out option, not moving something from top to bottom (haven't checked, I blocked all the India specific content using an ad blocker). Their silence about implementing an opt out is deafening.
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With imdb India i am missing out info on all the latest awesome new movies and tv shows.I have zero interest in watching Indian content which are basically third rate rip-offs of American shows.I guess i'll have to solely depend on metacritic if this continues.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Fallback to old IMDB UI.
I access IMDB from India, Before update the old IMDB used to show top movies of Hollywood and upcoming movies and all that Hollywood info, I hate bollywood(indian movies) and I don't follow it. but now in new IMDB interface all I see is bollywood info see below screen shot
This is useless to me as I am not interested in it. I tried to change site preference but no effect.
It would be real great to some of us people if you allow to switch back to other country's interface by region setting or may be allow to switch to older interface or may be disable regional setting somehow.
Thank you
I access IMDB from India, Before update the old IMDB used to show top movies of Hollywood and upcoming movies and all that Hollywood info, I hate bollywood(indian movies) and I don't follow it. but now in new IMDB interface all I see is bollywood info see below screen shot
This is useless to me as I am not interested in it. I tried to change site preference but no effect.
It would be real great to some of us people if you allow to switch back to other country's interface by region setting or may be allow to switch to older interface or may be disable regional setting somehow.
Thank you
Anand G
Dinesh Patel
om velani
Ayyappan Sreekumar
Manoj Kiran