Bollywood is being stupid...
Jun. 27th, 2009 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieAhaaaaa. 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!
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!
