i have always been extremely bothered about the way the indians are represented in the "crossover movies"
mom with pickles and coconut oil,dad permanently clad in his khadi kurta and his thick glasses behind his newspaper and the son/daughter who is trying to cope with their parents and the confusion of cultures. for crying out loud!!!!
Bride and Prejudice was one such movie that was made to the point of ridicule. Gurrinder Chadda made Indian moms look like the only thing on their minds was getting their daughters married. please there is far more to mom's than that.
The Kumar's at No.42 is another case in example. The entire family thinks its their duty to make royal fools of themselves and Sanjeev. Its gone from the point of being funny to getting on my nerves.
American Desi with the cliched "krishna gopal reddy" insisting on being called "kris"!!!!
The only movie of late in this spate of films that is atleast a little close to reality is Flavors.The way in which the parents will accept their son's foreign wife and the wedding and all,the girl who just wants to spend time with her husband. All these characters are believable and nice.
I strongly feel that Indians are not as they are portrayedto be.Making a mockery of our culture does not count as comedy. After all we dont see Greeks making jokes on their rites, or the Red Indians making spoofs of their smoke signals and for that matter the Americans making comedies on the non-existance of a history or tradition.
ok thatz a lot of desi bashing!!!
will stop now
cya.
2 comments:
Hey Mahati,
I second your thoughts about the way desi's r depicted by these good-for-nothing dyro's 1) Deepa Mehta 2) Mira Nair and 3) Gurinder Chadda or cheddi or whatever :D..
It is not fun but deriding the sentiments of Indians..
Particularly the child molestation in Monsoon wedding are so caught-up by the westners that they think it is common....mahn...poor comedy in Bend-It-Like-Beckham..
Keep posting in ur blogs...mee manasu telusukone prayatnam chestamu...
cheers,
-asankhya
You are right.It is a tame affair, despite Chadha thinks 'What if I did a film about this and put an Indian girl in the middle of it.’ “Patrick Stewart was incredible in Kumar’s at No.42, but as you say we get used to it. Coming to American desi, it is some American and some desi and does not matter he is called Kris as long as Krises are not Reddys and not reading this. I do still hope India’s image is everlasting and a few flicks here and a few there will not change the glorious past and the deep good impressions that were already made on the minds of world community. We are proud that we are unchanged despite so many invasions and religious crusades and we survived intact with our own brand of culture. We are transforming at an accelerated pace as a nation consisting different classes of people striving for excellence in their own areas in the backdrop of liberalized global unison and soon we shall be leaders in our own right, setting new paradigms in every field. The films can never damage our culture and they last on the viewers’ minds till the click for next channel or till we reach home safe to our respective main doors of conservative(yet transforming) hearths.. Nice blog by the promising blogger and God bless you, Mahati for your real concern on desi bashing. Kudos to your language.
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