Mengistu Alemayehu says he has been to more countries than he can count, (“I know more than a hundred of them reasonably well’), courtesy his job at International Finance Corporation (IFC). By that yardstick, the 49-year-old bachelor has spent a long time in India — close to three years as IFC’s director, South Asia. Though he travels a lot, Alemayehu, born in Addis Ababa, had made many trips to India even before his current job and finds the country — Hindi movies, in particular — familiar territory. That’s because of his Indian English teachers since Grade VI in Ethiopia. Mother India is an all-time favourite, as are the movies of Dharmendra and Hema Malini. Of late, he looks forward to Aamir Khan movies during his flights to other parts of the world.