Poll Suggestion: Top 250 With/Out India

I agree. I am also do wish Satyajit Ray would earn a spot in the list as he is one of cinema's best. 

India has the demographic edge over all the other countries, so making a Top 250 only based on quantitative parameters will inevitably affect the Top 250.

Your opinion would be validated by the presence of international Indian classics such as Mother India, the Apu trilogy, Lagaan or Salaam Bombay but when you look at the Indian movies on the Top 250 list, many of them look like (certainly) good but rather 'normal' movies with no international resonance whatsoever (no Cannes Festival, Berlin or Oscar nod), when you see a poster that clearly looks like a fun and mindless comedy, you know you're not dealing with the Indian equivalent of Amelie or Rashomon. And such movies do exist.

So yes, I think IMDb should include some specific parameters to filter the Top 250 movies, a foreign film that is most likely to be known in one country or some neighbors (whether India or Turkey or Iran or whatever) should have its popularity exceeding the borders of the country (at least one nod for a Foreign Award, just one nomination)

I'm personally not a big fan of the Indian films on the list either. However I'm not a fan of many of the films on there, whether it is Indian, American or otherwise.