Bollywood is being stupid...

[dangermousie]

Ahaaaaa. Apparently New York, the movie largely famous for having John Abraham be naked has opened. This is a very very spoilery summary of the plot.

Oh Bollywood - plz never try to do a 'serious' movie on Americans and terrorism. This is about the stupidest plot I've ever read.

Also, note: I'd be a lot more willing to buy people being prejudiced against Indians as suspicious foreigners after 9/11 if your cast didn't look so blindingly white that an average American would never even realize they weren't Caucasian - come on, John Abraham? He looks whiter than I do! Maybe if they cast a Southie actor, or at least Shahrukh Khan, I'd buy it...

Not to mention, I'd also be a lot more willing to buy "poor wrongly mistreated Indians" thing if it showed John/Neil/whoever being accosted with racial slurs and maybe an occasional beat-down in a parking lot if they ended up somewhere really backward and remote-rural in October 2001. Not being dragged off the streets of melting-pot New York for hideous torture while looking yuppie-white.

Heh.

IRRITATED NOW.

Seriously, I am looking foward to stuntman/female star Bolly movie with Akshay and Kareena and the Rani/Shahid adorable 'crossdressing girl wants to play sports' flick but this? Seriously, Bollywood, don't bother to bother.

Tp make self feel less irritated:



Rani as a girl who crossdresses to play sports! Shahid being adorable and dancery! EEE!

Comments

[december-clouds.livejournal.com]

Not being dragged off the streets of melting-pot New York for hideous torture while looking yuppie-white.

Seriously. It's New York. New York City is about (according to my Sociology classes) 62% non-white.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Really? That makes sense but I did not know it.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

I believe that people of Indian and Pakistani descent have probably gotten a lot of flack in post-9/11 world but as you said, it's probably been people of older generations, who hardly dress in mainstream American fashion, perhaps Sikh men who wear a turban because ignorant people see them as Middle-Eastern and therefore terrorists.

But yeah, people who don't look Indian to the eyes of the white majority, not too likely.

But omg did you see the theatrical promo for Dil Bole Hadippa? It looks so colour-filled, cutesy and fun. Rani looks gorgeous, Shahid looks cute.. This is definitely among my most anticipated Bollywood right now.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

did you see the theatrical promo for Dil Bole Hadippa?

It looks so very awesome! It's my most anticipated, too!

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

When I first saw that poster, I HONESTLY thought it was for a new made-for-Disney tv movie.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Makes sense - High School Musical movies are pretty close to what a fun Bollywood movie is like :)

[greycoupon.livejournal.com]

I like how happy and "bouncy" the New York trailer is.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heee. "We are chirpy and happy and dressed in GAP. And theeeeeen bad things happen."

[kathputli-girl.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for that Rani Shahid movie!! 8D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It looks beyond adorable