What crap!
I assumed the movie would be one of those easy-watch ones where they show you an ideal idea about how people find their true calling or see past their own egos and find their soul mate all at one time. You know those kinds don’t you?
I was put off -actually not just put off, quite angry at what they still perceive India to be. For those of you who don’t have an idea of what I am talking about, the movie tries to present a picture of lousy India which an American concedes and grudgingly accepts because he finds himself unable to do anything else about it.
I felt in this day and age when the west is all ga-ga about our Indian sciences and our holy men and our yoga and our brains and let’s not forget our music, its time the director woke up and realized there is so much more to show about us than showing half dressed urchins and fat aunties who ask about your marital status or over eager rural turned urbanites who ask your’ good name’.
The notion was so absurd that all India is about is its poverty, backward traditions and outdated idea. Wake up people!!
They show a call centre employee who flirts with every female caller he has. And another female with double standards for morality. Does that happen in India? It very likely does. Does that happen only in India? Definitely not.
Next time you want to make a movie on India, do your research well. Or maybe visit this country and see for yourself. That beside the slums world class malls have come up, that even behenjis here can speak English better than you, that for a nation of a billion plus people we are still pretty open hearted to welcome you in our midst.
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