How Indians Have Been Stereotyped By Hollywood
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- For the West, India has always been a mystical land of snake charmers or IT nerds. It has taken a long time for artists like Aziz Ansari, Lily Singh, Hasan Minhaj and Mindy Kailing to break the stereotypes and fight for the better representation of Indians in recent films and T.V. shows through authentic storytelling.
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I loved watching slumdog millionaire..
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in The Witcher they also cast an Indian English actor for lead role of sorceress (one who become beautiful from ugly)
Also plz make a video how dalits are stereotyped by uppercaste in bollywood
ur channel name is indiatimes..... but ur talking in hindi........
why?
This how northeast Indian or me myself from Manipur felt about casting Priyanka Chopra as Mary Kom instead of an northeast Indian actress or Manipuri actress
Waaah! I didn't think about this ever, but now i'm.
You're right...a northeast actress should have been casted :(
You are Right
Bollywood is shit. That's why. And as an Indian I hate bollywood
@Yoo Yoo first of all I'm not south indian. I'm a rajasthani and a hindu. I hate bollywood for its anti national and anti hindu attitude. Don't be too fast to judge. !!! break lagao bhai !! Bollywood is full of criminals who don't have their best interest in India. Hollywood or bollywood they both sail in the same boat these days !!
@Yoo Yoo esa nhi hai... tanhaji ko blockbuster rw walo ne hi banaya hai. Or chappak jesi movie ko bhi flop rw ne karaya hai. Bollywood is not India. Bollywood ko kuch bolne se india ki image khrb nhi hoti. Sushant case ke bad already puri dunia bollywood se nafrat krne lgi hai not just Indians !!! Or jin desh k logo ki tum baat krrhe ho woh already India se nafrat krte hai or woh unhone slumdog jesi stereotype movie banake prove krdi !! Quantico series me bhi yahi dikhaya tha. India bad pakistan good and usme humari chaheti priyanka chopra thi. Ye sab bike hue dalle hai. Inko sarr pe chadhana band kro !!
Aur meri baat mano twitter pe 'GemsOfBollywood' page pe jao and waha clips dekho shyd tumhe shyd aaye !!!!
It's kind of irony,while we talk about stereotyping of South Asian. Bollywood still stereotypes South Indians.
Ofc Bollywood is also wrong but that doesn't give the right to Hollywood to stereotype us
But its south indian flim industry gets a lot of recognition. Phenomenal actors like Dhanush, Allu Arjun, Vijay, etc. are being recognised and being showered with extreme love all over india. The films that stereotypes south india aren't even recognised ones. But what about the North eastern actors. People don't even know they exist cause they are often cast as extras like watchman or chotu or some such shitty role. And this stereotype about NEerns and Nepalis being watchman or some other minimum waged worker can be seen in all indians. The north and south are unified when they have to discriminate them. And this isn't all but i won't go all in, i just want to say think of the NE as indians too. This doesn't mean you can't share your opinion, this is just me sharing mine.
Shut up please
I think we all are doing it don't start with only bollywood is doing it because this racism is also part of South industry too. Most of South Indian movies able to cast a dusky or dark skin men as hero but heroine is always going to be fair. I won't talk about exceptions but we all are like that. South Indian don't like North Indian and whole India doesn't except North East India as a part of India so yes we all are racist
@@stutikhanna987 agreed
Not all indians are brown, an actress(had a light skin tone) from a indian soup was denied a role in holliwood because she was not "enough Indian". Seriously wtf??!!!!
As bad as it sounds I don't feel sorry. Dark skinned people have been denied main roles. They are only made to do the bad guy or taxi driver role.
There is something called light brown and dark brown , It's all brown , even Moroccans gets called as brown, no matter how white you look at your mirror or your oppo phones, there is still a huge difference between whites and you
@@iclip1065 I'm a Kashmiri pundit and my tone is being far from being brown, but if I were to get role in holliwood for an Indian character, I would be denied this because I may not complete the perfect Indian stereotype.
@@rekhatripathi5726 yeah that could be one thing
@@rekhatripathi5726 yes but you could use being ethnically ambiguous as an advantage in Hollywood at least. Eg they cast a non Indian (but slightly brown) guy to play an important Indian character in The Social Network. You could play Middle Eastern or Latin American for example. Alternatively I’m sure your pale complexion will suit Bollywood just fine. Brown people who are representative of an Indian population are grossly underrepresented in all areas of popular culture. Any brown actors of historic eras have also miraculously grown paler over time.
It's ironic how India complains of being stereotyped while stereotyping their own communities. The way Bengalis, Gujaratis, Biharis, North-Easterners and South Indians are represented in mainstream Indian media screams stereotype but nobody pays a heed to these. The moment of epiphany is yet to come. ''Be the change you want to see in the world'', can we abide by this please?
...and we don't eat rosogolla as a staple. I don't know when they'll get over it. We have other sweets for god's sake. Ughh.
Well said❤
Meanwhile..Odias are crying in a corner 😂😂😭😭
South Indian stereotypes really piss me off
N meanwhile North East are crying in a corner 🤫
And Bollywood stereotypes Rajasthan by showing deserts, havelis & guys wearing turban
I guess when they cast these people they only show those royal type families or Nobel people are try to show the extreme village areas while they disconnected with the part of middle class people who are living in cities
Bro he also called out Bollywood...
Bollywood or Hollywood both are stupid.....
Internet shortage too😂😂😂
I mean Rajasthan is
Desert and havelis
@@rohandutta9986 not really.my mother is rajsthani our district is greeny.
And here Bollywood films cast nepali as watchmen Hahaha nice one.
Nd they are....😂
Hollywood can even cast Indians as chai wala s ...
@@sachinsingh-in4ck that's offensive bro
@@gauravgogoi123 chai walas??.. Get lost idiot 😡😡
@@Truthholder345 bol ek human heart kitna valves hote he aur kaun se valve ke pass me pacemaker bethate he
We can't expect Hollywood to break these stereotypes when we ourselves have not got rid of them
True
Hollywoodian are illiterate or maybe be immature about rest of the world
facts.
@@Niko-cb5xc Still better than all of the film industries in the world....!
When are 'indians' shown as terrorists btw? Lmao
Meanwhile Indian movies showing an Indian Christian person:
"Tum kya karta hai man!"
🤣
When I was a kid I thought this is the way they talk
But now i feel how dumb I was😂😂😂
@@Plausiblelove For Bollywood, Christians/Parsi/Goa, they all are same thing
As if we are foreigners or smth
I was searching for this comment lol
As a dark-skinned Indian woman I feel more represented in Hollywood than in Bollywood
Not a joke
Sure Hollywood has it's problems with stereotyping and bigotry but nowhere as close as Bollywood does
Why do you want to be represented? Do u watch stuff to enjoy them? Or cure your insecurities
@@virajmhapsekar2977 you need representation in a society.
And when films don't do that in a fair way, you get hurt.its like they show how society is but in the way they wish to.
Stereotypes are not fair.bollywood never shows love story of a dark skinned woman, dark skinned ppl do fall in love. And that's what children learn by watching these movies , they set societal rule on Beauty standard .as ppl who can influence the society(movie makers) they should do it more responsibly .
Try watching malayalam movies , you will come to know how to represent characters in a fair way.
Facts
Bollywood is shit
Well both Hollywood and Bollywood are equally shit in their own ways of stereotypes... I only like Hollywood because of good stories they make...and watch it mainly because of Christopher nolan cause his films are just brilliant.
Please talk about “How South Indians/North East Indians have been stereotyped in Bollywood”
Seriously? You're not gonna include muslims?
@@TheOwlTheOne so are you saying there are no Muslims in south India or north east India?
@@aravchubsbaba Dude, I'm saying why didn't he include muslims stereotypes in bollywood. Calling them terrorists, showing their features like wearing kajal in their eyes, wearing shalwar kameez with bandana and having only one agenda which is killing innocent people.
@Human Being Oh really? My religion is being trashed by bollywood for decades and I shall not bring it in the conversation? What are you a hypocrite?
Look how many people supported the family man show which portrayed south indians as anti nationalists, muslims as terrorists, Pakistanis as war mongering
Watching this I barely realized he was switching from Hindi to English, the beauty of being bilingual
Wait, he did?
I mean everybody has to see.India doesn't mean Hindi.
Well, neither of the languages are my mother tongue, but same, I didn't even realise he kept switching
Actually...at a point I couldn't understand the language he was speaking...like I have forgot both Hindi and English 🤣😂..then I used subtitles
Wow tricky 😂
Even in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (movie- 2005), the Indian characters, Parvati Patil and Padma Patil are shown to be non entities and are badly stereotyped.
Fun fact: They are not even of Indian origin.
In the books it is not mentioned that they are Indian. They are British in the books. But the movies don't do justice to most characters in the books.
Yeah I still remember those ugly looking lehengas....😑
@@it_g_102_riturajburnwal6 haa 😔
@@it_g_102_riturajburnwal6 They don't want them to be more prettier than their main character.
That’s because Tom altar wasn’t given hero role in Bollywood..
Exactly, Bollywood is more stereotype than Hollywood
@@LoneWolf-tk9em Ofc Bollywood is also wrong but that doesn't give the right to Hollywood to stereotype us
@@ranjana585 Nobody holds right to Bollywood. Anyone is free to do whatever they please 🤷🏽 Bollywood is no one's property
@@ranjana585 abcd.at least we can make a video showing how bollywood cast stereotypes like africans ,pakistanis and even northeast india
It's illogical! They have many Indians living in America, so many people from Asia from such a long time. They are the citizens of America now. Whereas in India, we don't see many foreigners settling in India obviously due to the absence of various facilities in India. Bollywood or Indian film industries are not completely right as well as we see absolutely no representation of North-Easterners. But for Tom Alter, it was such a long time back when identifying a foreign as an Indian would have been extremely difficult for the audience and even now, we don't have a lot of foreigners in our country who are Indian Citizens.
Even then, Tom Alter got to play the role of Abul Kalam Azad in a Television series (Documentary) 'Sambvidhan'.
according to Hollywood : India means Hindi and slums.
But in Nolan's movies shows the developed side of India: for example Interstellar and tenet.
same in mission impossible
"How can you possibly cast a white guy to play an indian?" It's same as...
"How can you possibly cast a north indian to play a south indian that too with some stereotype things?"
very true
Alia bhatt in two states! They could have choosen any south indian actress instead!
@@shreyajags3008 yes! It lost the nativity. Hope bollywood realises it someday.
Not really north Indian and south Indian doest have much differences other than their culture
@@user-zw7wg1vt5c really! Tell them that, and you will understand the difference
Stop complaining, Bollywood does it all the time. Casting Marathis as either kaamwali bais or corrupt policeman, south Indian as a frail nerd, parsi as a businessman with some wala surname.
Ofc Bollywood is also wrong but that doesn't give the right to Hollywood to stereotype us
Then call bollywood out but don't tell other people to shut their voices
So? That doesn't mean we shouldn't criticize Hollywood as well...
Lick Hollywood brother lick
@@ranjana585 who gives a f about Hollywood bro? Hollywood is meant for Americans
And Bollywood is meant primarily for Indians so we should fix that first instead of going international
This is what I feel when Bollywood stereotypes south indians
oh god i am so sorry 4 this 🥺
- a northeast indian
@@namjesus1998 r u being sarcastic
Bollywood is shit, even North Indians hate bollywood. Atleast most people I know do. But yes, south films have also stereotyped North Indians equally badly. So we all need to learn from each other.
@@ritzzyritz2044 can u tell how south indians stereotype north
same for punjabis
In Spider Man: Homecoming, they showed India and it was beautiful. Iron Man was attending a marriage.
That was a Hindu wedding, but they never mentioned India. Hindu wedding can happen anywhere
@@nothing.lasts.forever India is the largest Hindu country bro, everywhere you go you will find Hindus. That's why it's called Hindustan. In Japanese Anime, they show the Shinto or Buddhist religions all the times because of there popularity but they never show Islam or Hinduism because clearly they don't have the audience. It's all about the audience, if they were showing Hindus then also they weren't disrespect anyone. 🚩
However he was also making fun of the fact that he couldn't find wifi anywhere
lmao with a yellow filter
Thanks to Bollywood for amplifying such stereotypes and benefitting from it.
i knew that kuch haramkhor westernized indians rather than collaborating will argue and fight with their own countrymen, thats their nature, trying to sound intelligent and morally superior
Unbiased opinion comes with more research. Priyanka Chopra isn't the first one..
KUNAL Nayyar of big bang theory.. he cracked it way before.. he became one of the Highest paid tv actor in one of the best and popular shows.. 12 seasons he was there.. and in this, he's honestly shown to be more wealthy than his white American friends.. Kunal needs more recognition, credit and support from India seriously.. Period !!
And i love him..... he's the funniest in the whole bunch
Who is Kunal ?
@@albertrex6851 the indian guy in big bang Raj koothrapalli
He is British Indian. PC is just Indian. Difference
@@shramanadasdutta3006 still he has a very strong connection with India and even had his wedding here....and he he lived from 1985 to 1999 in New Delhi, that is, when he was 4 till around 18-19...so he's basically an indian
You see how it’s always Indian girls in the lead but never an Indian guy
You see there is always a old Salman Khan type of man in Bollywood movies in front of young Katrina Kaif has a main lead female love interest
They don't want white guys to be dethroned.
@@MrALenCar321 yah
@@gigigirl1453 I don’t like Bollywood
@@annamalaip2434 sometimes I also don't like Bollywood because of Salman Khan and some like that people who are not talented fucking Nepotism but when I see Ayushman Khurana or Rajkumar Rao I actually feel good there are good talent in Bollywood good movies in Bollywood but the good movies on small scale which doesn't get release in the big countries and this f****** movies get released but anyway......... you like Bollywood or you don't like Bollywood it's your choice doesn't matter whatever .... 🙄😑
We can't blame Hollywood while bollywood missed the opportunities to break the stereotype..... Like a Bengali is always with fish red white sarees and durgapuja😂😂😂....
Marathi Kamwali ,Parsi as a Buisnessman with something wala surname , South Indians as Nerds , Rajasthan as just Turbans and Dessert with Havelis and Odisha and North-east doesn't even Exist
@ShekharC'na yes yes😂
@@punitarathi4127 and you forget to add that only North Indians with a surname like kapoor chopra sing are eligible for becoming a hero and recent trends is all up and Biharis are villains with vojpuri accent
@@punitarathi4127 what about biharis
@@debolinadeysarkar7176 Wait Bollywood Serials are Incomplete without the Surname Malhotra 😁😂
What about representation of caste in bollywood. Every hero is a Khanna, kapoor or malhotra . What about 85% of other castes.
True
And we have 3 khan's 😂. Well ur talking about nepotism dude
Lol your propaganda doesn't fly here, half of Bollywood is literally KHAN, from Salman to Nawaz to Amir to Irfan.
@@Albetroz1415 except Nawaz everyone in bollywood is a pathan. They are upper caste among muslims. You should know that caste system exists amongst Indian muslims.
@@amanchaudhary8324 exactly..!
How can we expect Hollywood to break stereotypes when we have those within our own country. They were having some fixed formulated opinion on how they show Indians on screen. But within country, each regional film industry have stereotype on other.
Cons of diversity
" and I am pretty sure he has already offended 90% of the Americans "
A.R.M.Y😁
@@chahatchowdhary6616 hahaha
@sangameshwar w Ohhhh really!!??
nope, we because we know, we only shown what we saw Indians doing already so, we aren't offended at all.
Plot Twist:- Everyone is stereotyped in Bollywood. Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians everyone! Since, India is a diverse nation, directors and producers make movies which fits in their propaganda.
Even in the series 'Never have I ever' except for the lead role that's given to an actress of color or of Indian origin, the entire series is based on the negative stereotypes of India. Things are exaggerated, almost seems nonsensical at many points and I don't know which age of India they are referring to. And Indians merely got happy that at least the lead role is played by an Indian American. 🤦🏻♀️😑
Soo true right? I felt the same thing. They were minting money out of our inferiority complex.
Hey just watch whatever they are serving you. Everybody stereotypes everybody that's the human nature.
@@mr.noname6109 so why rate things? Yes Stereotypes exist, and Most of them are true upto some point, but overdoing something again and again, takes away the purpose of entertainment
She is Sri lankan I guess
Bro Indian cultures itself are exaggerated . From the aunties to the non-accented English, never have I ever hit the bull's eye at portraying India .
I know many manipuri actress who doesn't get roles more than a masseuse or manicurist or more stereotypical ones in the Bollywood movies.
True. I am realising this only now. I have never seen a north eastern actor/actress in bollywood
@@ishikajain3668 there is one in pink.She was one of Tapsee's friends. I m not sure I didn't watch the movie . But I remember seeing her on hoardings in Shillong
Manipuri actress most welcome to malayalam cinema . You will be recognised as everyone .just langauage and culture learn no big deal 🤗❤❤💫🌏🌏
When 90% of Indian population is either brown or dark Skinned, most actors and actresses are extremely fair . In all film industries of India. If your own people don't own their skin colour and want to be white, how could you blame foreigners for casting white actors for such roles. How many south indian actresses are dark skinned ? or even from South ? Tamanna Bhatia, Tapasee Pannu, Kajal Aggarwal, Kriti Kharbanda, Shalini Panday etc.
But they will still find a way to blame it on Britain. They blame them for literally everything, caste, creed, gender discrimination or religious discrimination. As if before British raj India was so fucking open minded. It's hilarious. They call the aspects of lgbt, mental disease, even love, a Western culture as if our culture just teaches "how to be a saint".
It's hilarious and disgusting the way Indian people have learned to blame it on others and never see their own faults.
@@namelesssoul104 Because All Conservative and Right Wing people are the same. When it comes faults in education system, social acceptance or Economical inequality, they will tell us it
s not society's fault, it's yours. But when it comes to discrimination, which they started using caste system, they pit this on Britishers. I used to believe in Right wing Ideology long time ago, but then I saw What kind of hypocrites they are. Not just Hindus, but people of every religion and country, everyone who believes in Right Wing Ideology is exactly like that. They don't want Equality, because that will take away "their" privilege.
This is why I believe in Communism.
@@comrade3186 LOL half of Bollywood is SOUTH INDIAN ACTRESSES 🤦♂🤣Aishwarya Rai, Deepika Padukone, Pooja hegde, Shilpa Shetty, Anushka Shetty(all are Mangalore bunts/coastal Karnataka belt) & Vidya Balan, Rekha, Sridevi, Nayanathara, Rashmika Mandanna, Shruthi Hassan, Samantha Akkineni, Amala Paul, Parvathy... the list goes on. Your propaganda to stereotype the south doesn't work 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Albetroz1415 Exactly!
@@chandrikayadav7153 Forgot to mention people who work behind the camera like A R Rahman, Rohit Shetty, Ram Gopal Verma, Raj & DK, Prabhudeva, etc all SOUTH INDIANS 🤷♂ the guy who made this comment has ZERO knowledge about the industry & in India people work wherever they find work regardless of north or south or black or white.
Remembering how Amy Jackson was casted in the role of a Tamilian IN KOLLYWOOD.
Yeah it's a shame. She got introduced to indian find by acting as a British(her actualy ethnicity) lady in madarasapattinam and went onto to be casted as a tamilian itself. I laugh at most films portraying her as a tamilian
@@oceaness1583 true she shouldnt be casted as a tamilian such a joke
if katrina kaif and nargis fakhri can be cast as indians so can amy jackson 😀
@@raghavs897 🥴🙄🤢
That too as a TamBram which demands more authenticity.
I don't understand why we need western film industry to break stereotypes. Don't we have the world's third largest film industry?
All indian language cinemas can break these stereotypes by promoting the true real india, whether it is good or bad.
We are still suffering from colonial mindset that's why.
@PR SSVV It's bcoz people enjoy crap action romantic movies like bhagi 😹
We actually have the Largest Film Industry in the world and Hollywood is Third. Indian movies are watched all over the world in China, Central Asia and alot of Africa as well.
@PR SSVV Why would anybody demand an Indian to be in a leading role in a Marvel/ DC movie, there are no famous indian origin characters (Btw, Black Panther, Shan Chi were relatively famous in the comic world before the movies). The closest famous character is Ms Marvel who is pakistani and is getting a D+ Show. Also do some people in India still think that all Marvel/DC characters are made up for the movies and not based on comics.
@PR SSVV Did anyone support Ra One the first half of its was awesome with great VFX just the second half was a dirty jokes nothing else
Meanwhile Indians on social media:
‘Brown family’ ‘brown Dad’ ‘brown girls’
Smh
Everytime I see a representation of India in western media,
It all starts with slums and sitar music.
This guy:There are less brown people in Hollywood
Me:Wait,so there are brown people in Bollywood?
Almost every country has brown and black people's either it's america or india but indians are little bit more racist about colour than americans. hollywood gives more attention to brown people and bollywood gives more attention to white peoples that's why we couldn't found much brown peoples in our industry :/
@@ruby7169 man, are you sure Indians are more racist that the Americans?
Literally every second lead of series/movie is a white person with a stereotypical black or asian character who is there just to be racist and we are supposed to be okay with it because the character is asian/black too?
American humour has always been racist, so much that the French are now taking offence on how stereotyped their culture is American media (see Emily in Paris)
@@vaibhavirai3502 Agree with you with the second paragraph. But in general, Indians are more Racist than Americans.
I really loved the role of Aziz Ansari in NBC TV Show Parks and Recreation
Hollywood showing Indians acting like westerns
Indians: That's not our culture
Hollywood showing Indian culture
Indians: That's stereotypical
well bollywood itself stereotypes us so... it makes sense .
Isnt it actually a mixture of both 🤔
Hollywood board: Arre kare toh karre kya?
which film showed indian culture?
Agree with most of what you said except when you told "Superwoman" has made any contribution. She's a cringe fest and cries when things do not go her way. A product of extreme woke liberal class.
"Brown face" is stupid (and woke)
"cultural appropriation" is woke (its stupid, I would be happy and proud if someone dresses up in Indian clothes)
This channel is too woke.
Stereotyping (to an extent) is ok. For example: all British people love tea- that's a positive stereotype there is nothing wrong with it even though we all know that not all British people love tea. Every culture stereotypes each other. And that's ok as long as it isn't racist (not using racism in the woke definition but the actual definition).
Bollywood: Hollywood! Stop stereotyping us
Same bollywood: cast south indian as a black guy with white dhoti who always add curd to everything he eats
Yeah, they just see themselves being stereotyped. Bollywood don't even know that they are also doing the same shit for long time and they want Hollywood to stop it !!!!! I mean woww wtf
Wait a minute. I'm from Bihar, my father likes to watch south Indian movies.i see those in south Indian movies that Villains are wearing dhotis, with kattas and coconuts in their hands..you're lying.dont play the victim card here.
Name some other Bollywood movie except Chennai express which has done that.
U are overreacting.
On point
@@sarthakkk8628 ra one....happy
Abe yarr..gori ladkiyo ki bhi to hamesha Bollywood me aisa dikhaya jata h ki inko keval bikini phna aata h aur ye gold diggers Hoti h.
Btw even we Indians don't take our Bollywood seriously.
Ofc Bollywood is also wrong but that doesn't give the right to Hollywood to stereotype us
@@ranjana585 fun fact: majority of the Indian stereotypes are true in real life , You just have to go outside and explore
@@iclip1065 no they aren't
@@ranjana585 W HI Y TF ARE YOU GOIBG EVERYWHERE COPY PASTING A SINGLE COMMENT??
@@shravan1005 because everyone is saying the same thing.
The problem is that this bollywood industry never made films as a source of mass communication and for prevent steriotyping. They just make commercial masala film and that all.
Why to blame Hollywood when Bollywood itself does stereotyping. Being a Maharashtrian I really feel bad when they shown us as "house maid" with the typical accent which is used by "Baburao" in Hera pheri movie
And to add to that call her ‘bai’, ‘maushi’ or ‘tai’. Why can they call her Mausiji, or Didiji or whatever respectful word in their own language.
I find no offense in watching India's poverty in Hollywood cinemas, specially when Indian movies ignore those most of the time.. It is one of the realities of my country.
Lol so true bollywood is all about nepotism and luxury,they never try to show the reality or common peoples problems
It is actually very common in Bollywood movies...
Look past commercial slick productions...and you'll find plenty which
show ...in Hindi films as well as other regional cinemas!!
Yea, i agree but it is JUST ONE OF THE REALITIES of my country, i mean they also should focus on the other aspects too....thats like saying people of bihar don't know english but noo! Bihar has produced most no. of IAS & IPS officers
That's true, but the problem starts when it's the ONLY representation of your country
We have already stereotyped religion, cast and gender in our country for as long as we existed, we should fix ourself before asking others
Unpopular Opinion : 2:23. This is the same way Hindis treat other communities of this country. You Hindi belt people see others as exotic and to add flavour in your country. The line "Hindi hai hum watan Hindustan hamara" says it all. The way Hindis treat others make me feel like we are not living in India but a Hindi nation.
Are u a punjabi?
@@AbhiJeet-hz2eq Yes.
@@navneetsingh6824 sahi keha , hindi hain hum kehke india nu tussi kuch states tkk hee rkhta , fer avde ethe kee acceptance hoyi add add cultures dee
There is an Indian origin writer and director in hollywood named as M. Night Shyamalan and he started directing movies in the 90s.
One of his movie was also nominated for the oscars in almost every category and at that time he was in his 20s this shows that we Indians has so much potential in almost every field but due to lack of facilities or lack of support some of the very best in their businesses doesn't able to show their talent.
In recent years his few movies didn't able to impress critics or audiences and this director has faced so much hates because of just 2 or 3 movies.
Its weird to hear Indian talking about racism when they are the flag bearer of it. Think about racism happening in the home, more Indians live in India than USA (I guess).
There are barely few millions of indian in usa whereas there are almost half a billion true indian in India
There alot of Indian ppl that are racist and if he's being different what's the problem! Ik alot of ppl are rasict,we can't change all of them.But at least we can try,and starting it from ourselves.
it’s not racism in india. it’s colorism. there is a difference.
@@preeta8275 yes there many stars who broke stereotypes of colorism
You're part of the problem. Indian isn't a single entity, but a large number of people with different ethnicity, and mind. India may have large number of racism* because of our population, but that doesn't mean Indians in general are racists.
You're probably one of those who would shout terrorist when a Muslim passes by you. You're the one whose racist by generalising a whole population.
From an Indian who has a naturally light skin tone, I am fully Indian, but living in America currently... I have auditioned a lot in Hollywood for "Indian" characters but got rejected all the time saying that I don't have the authentic "Indian" look which is, "Brown skin, black hair, black eyes".. I have fair skin, hazel eyes and brown hair which doesn't fit their stereotypes. Crazy how Hollywood wants the "brown skin" where as Bollywood wants the "fair skin". If this isn't rasicm then what is it?
*(Yes, I also got rejected for Never Have I Ever because I didn't look "Indian" for Mindy)*
*(And my rejection doesn't have to do with my acting, I have won a lot of awards in theatre and I have those good skills)*
**This is not me, I read it on twitter few days ago from someone who's an indian who tweeted under Mindy's "Audition for Desi Girls"**
But you missed to communicate about the hinduphobic acts of Piggy chops & Minhaj
They are more interested in getting their own image clear , rather than the country as a whole
Totally agree! What do you think of Patriot Act getting canned though?
because it was cringe
I was so upset about it! Patriot act was one of the few non fictional shows i binged
@@unrefusableoffer4412 ummm u have no taste..
@@namjesus1998
Ah yes an Indian islamist like minhaj is just so refreshing to see 😍😍😍
I loved it when he stood in solidarity for Kashmiri muslims but not Kashmiri Hindus or Sikhs after Article 370. He definitely wasn't pushing any agenda whatsoever.
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And Mindy Kaling also ended up stereotyping Indians in Never Have I ever!!
its funny and ironical how the only hope of unity or unanimousity lies in the west where we are not called out as Indians or Pakistanis but rather South Asians 🤷🏻♂️
This video is lit🔥🔥🔥
You should also make a video on 'How indians have been stereotyped by Bollywood' 🙄
@sangameshwar w Never knew that!!!
Why are people talking about bigotry within India in the comments primarily? I mean, that's an issue in itself and shouldn't be taken lightly and I agree, but that makes it seem like Indians "deserve" to be portrayed so horribly in Western media, sort of like a punishment until they solve all their internal problems upto everybody's standards of equality?
Like, what?
Bollywood also does this.
They have stupid stereotypes for other parts of India
Like every sikh is a punjabi and does bhangra every time without any reason. Or every sikh is related to some truck driver or mechanic.
Marathis, females are usually portrayed as kaamwalis and males as some corrupt policemen or gundaas, parsi as some business men, etc etc.
Ya bro u are right
The fact he said an Indian American actress mindy kaling and Indian American Muslim host hasan Minaj felt weird. Like he didn’t say Hindu actress mindy kaling? What was the need to mention someone’s religion
Mindy is not Hindu. Name does not make anyone Hindu.
This video is part of the problem. This guy promotes bullshit like 'A suitable boy' and other shit and asks why hollywood stereotypes Indians. The thing is none of the projects he mentioned is even related to India. Indian Americans ≠ Indians.
This can only happen when an actual Indian person makes films written on Indian stories and has Indian characters in it which is almost impossible.
@@ullasshome8392 are you crazy? Mindy is the only one who has portrayed Hinduism positively
Trueee!!
The thing that hurt me the most was the big bang theory, the office about stupid stereotypes
Agreed to all except Lily singh. I feel lily has stereotyped us more.
Meanwhile, a Bengali woman in a lal pari sari in bollywood:Dada, ektu cha pike jao.
I think that the progress of Indian and Indian origin actors in the West telling their OWN stories rather than simply being stereotyped is very encouraging indeed.
What about stereotyping by the bollywood on south indians?
Even though they literally coping most of our movies.
Their stereotyping made our own country stereotype other people in the same country! One day, everything is gonna get reversed.
He used the example of Omi in The Office, while that whole show is about humour evoking gender, race, and sexual stereotypes :3
Their stereotypes are really stupid.
Curry- They think Indians smell like curry and also think that Indians eat only curry.
They think In India there are only dark tones, if you are white tone they doubt you that you are not Indian ,and even if you are dark tone they think it's because Indians are not clean that's why they are dark.
WtF🙄 that's the weirdest thing that I ever heard 😂😂
And they think Indians are local people they don't know anything about classiness and they won't fit into western places.
They are loud.
And they heard some Indian songs like tunak tunak and think that every Indian songs are really like this.
I mean man did you ever heard other Indian songs those are freaking amazing.
And they really couldn't get the concept that India is an diverse country, every culture is not the same ,if you find a culture in India don't think that, It's the same for every Indians. Even one decade is not enough to learn Indians culture they are huge.
@ShekharC'na I accept that Bollywood is full of plagiarism but right now we are talking about stereotypes in other countries about India bro.
Despite the fact that majority of Indians are brown or black but most of the bollywood actors/actresses are fair skinned 🙄🙄
They racist af
@Bhoomi Gupta No it doesn't make you any less of an Indian but you should acknowledge the fact that most aren't and despite that the majority of Indian actresses are light-skinned which adheres to this heavily engraved, false notion of "Fair = beautiful" ideology. Not to mention that is misrepresentative
Bollywood :
cast punjabi person: call them paji plays *bolo bolo bolo boloo/bhangda music in the back*
cast tamil person: make them say aiyayo and make them as black as possible
cast a marathi person: make them hyper-nationalist, like raj Thackeray
--cast a North East Indian-- : cast Priyanka chopra
Mindy kaling pretty much capitalises on stereotyping herself.
while i do agree that indian representation usually follows or uses stereotypes as satire, sometimes it's the way we can get attention. once we have our foot in the door with using stereotypes (or going against all of them), we can push thorugh with our own narratives that we're just as human and with unique cultures of our own. i think with the next decade we'll see more stories deviate from that. it's a business perspective- i don't like it but i think we'll be seeing more real stories soon too.
@@nidhi2693 honestly, I would have agreed with you during 'The mindy project' era... But what on earth was 'Never have I Ever'?? The entire show was catered towards reaffirming the stereotypes the western audience holds regarding India. Tbh that's also alright but atleast admit it, the least she can do is not pretend to recycle stereotypes in the name of representation. Such representation will do us more harm than good, personally speaking, we are better off without it.
@@salsue9494 i agree with that. i haven't watched the show but i've heard mixed things about it. some think it's relatable and some think it's tries too hard. i don't have netflix so i can't have an opinion about the show. but i think that if what you're saying is true then yeah, it's not healthy. i think it's ok to use some stereotypes if you want to show that it's "ok to be a doctor" or "you don't have to be one." forcing them down though to perpetuate them or be the EXACT opposite doesn't improve anything
She didn't stereotype herself in "The Office". Why don't you talk about that too?
Wtf? Mindy is the only reasonable Indian actor in Hollywood. Hasan, Priyanka are jokes
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The comment section is just disappointing. Bollywood do stereotypes but the stereotypes are mostly about clothes, accent and food but Hollywood stereotypes in very worse way. They literally insults south asian culture. Don't be a woke.
Tamil film makers cast many North Indian actresses (Simran, Jyotika, Nagma, Tamannah, Hansika, Kajal) and if they ARE from the south then they are the fair variety (Asin, Shriya Saran, Trisha, Samantha, Nayan), while the male actors are Tamils and many have dark skin. This HAS to change. If Tamil girls need to be seen as beautiful, you need to cast dark skinned actresses alongside superstars. Matrimonial columns still demand "fair-skin" brides, when the boy is probably the colour of 80% cacao dark chocolate (just stating a fact).
Have you watched 'tenet'. Nolan did not used the indian stereotype. In fact films one the important character is indian.
Yes
Because it's evolving.. We don't see much racism or stereotypes in movies nowadays.. Film industry is always growing everywhere in the world
Yes, but ironically this accent sounds exactly like the stereotypical accent they mimic in Hollywood 😂
Actually everyone have a stereotypical image of people from other cultures and countries .....Indians do that too..we get angry when foreigners says india's official language is 'indian' instead of hindi...meanwhile Indians still say korea's and japan's official language as Korean and Japanese instead of the original name of that language...even in Indian movies we stereotypes foreigners as all white people and also their attitude...
Everyone should try to learn instead of ignoring.
We. Stereotype White and American people also. And Chinese people also in Bollywood and Serials.
Please don't get offended by everything else.
Stop licking westerns , it's bad thing any where stereotype some nation or race
In some movies. They stereotype us in every movie or cartoon.
@@blyat5352 yep we still watch Hollywood movies so we think they are superior like him , but American never see anything related to Asians
@@umamahesh7276 if there is any problem in America they call china and japan. Even they include Pakistan also in movies. But they never get help of india in hollywood movies
@@umamahesh7276 we run behind this American white people they don't care about Asian why we are so much obsessed with them
So the Golden line is "Represent to people where you truly belong." You can't go to someone else house and demand superiority. Getting a chance itself a big happening in foreign land.
I’m so fed up of these stereotypes! India is a culturally rich country, but it doesn’t mean all we do is celebrate all day! In India, not everyone has the “Indian accent” that you’re looking for. Indians don’t always look poor, it is home to some of the billionaires to. Indians can speak fluent English. They are not behind in technology either. In India, there are more smartphones that people so it’s practically impossible that there’s a person who doesn’t know how to use a smartphone. And for your kind information, USBs were invented in India. So don’t judge us just like that. You only see one side of our country in movies and the internet, there’s another equally beautiful side waiting to welcome you.
@jaep struiksma getting used to it is not a solution. People should know the real India. Not stereotype India.
What Indian movies do is as problematic though. For a few years now ethnically white women have been passed off as Indian women in a variety of regional as well as mainstream Bollywood movies. Kalki and Amy Jackson (Katrina Kaif as well though most people believe the myth of her being half Kashmiri) for example have or have in the past played ethically Indian women despite being white. This is problematic on 2 counts. Firstly the appearance of Indian women is being misrepresented, which is setting an unrealistic beauty ideal for them. Secondly it’s cultural appropriation (I exclude Kalki from this because at least she was born in India). Many of these ladies can’t speak the language and, with the exception of kalki again, are very mediocre at acting - which is doing nothing for female representation in film narratives. Background dancers are overwhelmingly white too, as if theres an abundance of white people in India. Other countries like the Uk and America actually have sizeable south Asian populations. India doesn’t have the same ethnic diversity. I’m of Indian origin but I’ve never lived in India (but I’m connected through cultural identity). I do feel that Indians are their own worst enemies and hypocritical. South Asians actors in the west are doing a commendable job and Hollywood is changing, albeit slowly. Indian movies are just regressing though.
Your comment is too big but i will just pick the amy jackson stuff there are literally 4 or 5 actresses at most that are white . But whats the problem with that can a white person not be indian and hindu/muslim ? They can be immigrants in India not saying they need representation in Bollywood lol . Bollywood is problematic but we can call out others for disrespecting us without you always bringing up whataboutary
@@rohang8246 the problem is that they are not playing white women, they are playing Indian women. That’s like me trying to pass off as black, white or East Asian - so yes it is problematic.
@@rohang8246 also do you think an Indian man or women with no knowledge of English could go and work in a mainstream Hollywood movie as a white person. It’s unthinkable. The only reason it passes in Bollywood and regional Indian movies is due to the fascination and obsession over white skin. It’s not a coincidence that the whole Bollywood industry is now confirming to a western ideal of beauty be that body shapes or skin colour (all the women are bleached now including previously darker skinned actresses like Kajol and Bipasha). You honestly don’t see this as a problem?
@@shrutisharma4586 i am not saying white washing isnt a problem i dont even support actors that do that but i am saying thenicity and nationality are different you can be a white person and indian since indian is a nationality and is also used as ethnicity but its still a nationality not an thenicity a white person can be indian but they cannot be south asian or brown like us thats it . I do t watch films that have whitewashing and i have watched like 0 commercial garbage for like 5 years
@@rohang8246 no I’m aware of what you’re saying but that’s not what they pass off in films - they pass off white or mixed race girls to be ethnically Indian. For example I am British - I’ve never lived a day in India BUT I can’t and won’t try and pass off as ethically white. Also, unlike as is the case in the uk, there isn’t as much ethnic diversity to make what you say plausible. I mean how many white people actually hold Indian citizenship? I bet it’s far fewer then the 2% of the total population of Britain who are ethnically Indian (but British citizens). It’s just not representative, so it boils down to the white skin fascination.
Representing India is important
Even more important is to present the goodness of India.
Some people sell their soul for some dollars or positions
It's irony, Bollywood shows Mahrashtrian / marathi characters kamwali, hawaldar or any corrupt politician.... so ya... we need some focus here also...
Bollywood also stereotypes regional culture s like Bengali Rajasthani bihari and south indians
I don't know why Indians are fed up with the things that they too know that is true....most of us are brown and that's true...still a large section lives in poverty or just barely above poverty that is also true....u can still find snake charmers in 2nd and 3rd tier cities.....we are exporters of IT thats also true....and jisko indian stereotypical music bolte hai of flute tabla and sarangi....bhai kya chahte ho tum india ko rock music se dikhaya jae.... Bharatnatyam hamare yaha ka hai ya phir hip hop.....i do believe not all phenomenon is everywhere but u should also know that everything can't be portrayed so majority is choosen to represent all.....Even in Bollywood movies nepalis are watchman,pakistanis are terrorist,chinese are spies, Americans are always white and rich,british are always racist.....man just grow up and accept that yes india has a lot of problems and it has to deal with it....india is not just big cities and middle or upper class people who think that these are stereotypes...still 70% people live in villages.....India is more than what u middle and upper class people think
Stereotypes exist in Bollywood too ... Be it Punjabi, Tamilian, Hyderabadi, Bengali, Gujrati guy etc...
The portrayal of Kelly Kapoor in The Office was really disappointing to watch.
Why?
U hv deep knowledge. Kafi study ki hogi iske bare me. Great.👌
Mary Kom had Priyanka Chopra play a North Eastern Indian. That's like getting Leonardo Dicaprio to play Muhammad Ali.
It's has a very straightforward reason behind it- by using stereotypes the audience can be convinced that a particular character is of that community/region in a jiffy. Watch Namaste London and see the way they have stereotyped the British. Watch the way they stereotyped the character of an NRI in Pardes. So, let's not play victim all the time as we are no less in taking support of stereotypes ourselves.
You yourself using the term South Asian instead of Indian.
Yeah bro cause he is talking about representation of all the countries in the indian subcontinent like pakistan or bangladesh
@Lum inosity yes
@@rohang8246 about Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan I don't know but I know about my Country India.
@Lum inosity nope !!
We're not like Americans okay ...
We don't show or tell stereotypes about NorthEast-Indians.
@Lum inosity that is the worst mentality ever . Any community has its problems i agree that north eastern representation in mass indian films have been absent or bad but that doesnt mean we dont deserve good representation outside after all its not my problem that some idiot writer director chose to show north easter ppl in bad light . So stfu
the way bollywood stereotypes punjabis in movies , that is so irritating , and i am not even punjabi so i can't even imagine the cringe of actual punjabis
i need to see more accurate brown rep in hollywood
Start it with bollywood
There are many sterotypes in regional film industry towards this so called bollywood or copywood . Let that settle first
Bollywood is also not clean as it sounds to be. It also have many stereotypes about foreign countries like Pakistan as terrorist always, Nepali people as house guard, white actor will be played by whitest white which is even hard to find in west and shown as bad characters. Etc etc
@jaep struiksma Then wth you people are whining being stereotyped.
Why no damn guy watching this channel???
Because they are focused on south india rather than india. Really wtf
@@bottle- isn't south India part of India?
I am sorry but Lilly Singh has been stereotyping Indian community, always.
What about how India has been stereotyping Pakistan since 1947? Stereotyping Muslims? Stereotyping south indians? Rajhestanis? Bengalis? Racism towards every minority? Brahmins are one of the most racist people in the world and you're worried about bollywood being Stereotyped
U missed Aishwarya Rai and Irrfan..
Aishwarya was in fact one of the first leading actresses getting those parts... she may not have acted well in them is a complete different story though 🤭
She rejected one offer for one film because it had intimacy scenes
Aishwarya had a dignified presence in international media that current Indian actors lack.
Lets not even talk about lily Singh, her whole career is built off of glorifying Indian stereotypes and downplaying Indian parents, their customs and their accent. She's a major reason why people see us the way they do.
You talking about Hollywood stereotyping Indians?? Indians themselves love stereotyping other Indians. Look at Bollywood. (You shouldn't since it'll burn your eyes). First we should learn to respect our own fellow Indians.
Fun game: Drink every time he says Indian
Also,personalities like Arunachalam Muruganantham in Padman was played as a guy from MP by Akshay Kumar.
Same with airlift
@@namratamadhu7326 Yes. You are right
They even added a character for Sonam Kapoor which was totally unnecessary
90% of the times when you say stereotypes it's actually reality
Not really... it must have been a reality when we got independence but India has progressed a lot since then...
@@ap8802 I didn't deny that
But can you please particularly mention which of the stereotypes he mentioned is not true in today
Yes, but those realities are used as an insult. Like eating curries and applying oil to our hair, these are true but looked down by Hollywood.
@@ap8802 Ummm.. sorry but you couldn't be any less accurate.
Ever since my parents were kids, we are taught that "INDIA IS A DEVELOPING COUNTRY" and to this day we are still taught the same thing. Don't even start the conversation about development.
As far as personal growth is concerned, "Nosy Nagging Indian Aunty" stereotype is very much a reality (unless you come from a highly educated community)
90% bhut zyada nhi ho gya?
I don't get why y'all want hollywood to properly represent something as diverse as Indian culture. Simpsons is a comedy. All their characters are stereotypes and caricatures. It's satire. The only valid examples of stereotypes in this video were in the sixties and eighties. Aziz ansari played tom haverford in parks and rec, mindy kaling was in the office and even got her own show. Dev Patel has done several other great films such as Lion, Hotel Mumbai,Chappie, The Man who knew infinity. He is also playing a literal knight in The Green Knight. If anything, Hollywood is doing a better job at representation and diversity than bollywoo