Some of these films are not really offensive, but rather ignorant and uncomprehending of the non-white reality of the rest of the world. You could even say they mean well.
Coming back to Basmati Blues, twitterers were less willing to let it go, however. “a terrible looking film filled with loads of stereotypes about Indians & India. We don’t need another movie about white saviours when we did everything in our power to get white people out of our country,” said one tweet.
“also it's 2017, most of our trains run on electricity which means you can't ride on the roof. and pls retire that trope of spicy food already. we know you can't handle anything of colour” said another. A tweet also pointed out “Do people in Hollywood not know that there are scientists in India? And Indian scientists in America?”
Well, we could say – let’s not be so thin-skinned and critical or we could say make better films already, America!!!
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