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potrayal of parsis and me rambling on

posted 14 years ago by noonenever
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this was a good movie and deepa mehta is a good director but what the *beep* has she got against parsis.
i am a parsi from india and was offended by some comments like the bum-lickers and even the lizard/chameleon thing. i think the filmakers have never heard of Dinshaw Edulji Wacha and dadabhoy naoroji (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadabhai_Naoroji who founded the indian national congress demanding for self rule) just to name a few.
also the film potrays the non-siding of parsis as something deviant and bad. so should the parsis have taken to the streets and started killing and who should they have slaughtered. well if deepa mehta had her way they should have sided with muslims in their majority areas and with hindus in their majority areas because she thinks its 'thinking swiss' if you dont pick sides and kill.

okay now enough of my complaining cause now i think of jewish people and how they must feel with the countless movies on the holocaust and the russian people with the countless american films on the cold war.
so in the end its all f u cked and its each to himself. people hate each other based on religion, skin colour, caste, country, ideology, values etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc times infinity. i mean look at this universe and every thing in it at an atomic/molecular level, everything is drifting apart in the ever expanding universe(not even sure if thats true cause you cannot simply know for sure) with only gravity holding somethings near.
but then again with everything in this world so bad and disgusting you also hear of something good and even if its something small its balances everything bad and the show goes on. i think the minutest particle of anything good is > everything bad.

*beep* i thought i would just put out a few lines but this is getting freaking long. so everyone just should, not hate anything. eg. homosexuals have the right to be and think homosexual therefore people also have the right to think its disgusting but these people should not hate homosexual people just like homosexual people dont hate them. i personally find any men/men sexual thing etc disgusting but women/women stuff like borat would say 'is very nice' ;)
i also think everything you just read might be b u ll-s h it
(except for the parsi stuff so a big *beep* you deepa mehta for that but youre still a good director, im awaiting shantaram)

[–] addto2 14 years ago

Okay, first of all the movie is based on a book by a Parsee so the film doesn't really reflect the director's thoughts that much. I think they are only meant reflect the prevalent views of the people of that turbulent time. And remember negative comments were made about Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus as well. Obviously one can't help but be offended/defensive of such comments, just don't assume that it reflects the views of the writer/director.

I didn't really see the negative portrayal of the Parsi family staying Swiss. I thought they had it less worse; their lives weren't threatened and they didn't have their neighbour's blood on their hands. What made you think their neutral stance was negatively portrayed?

[–] annemarieko 14 years ago

As someone who knows very little about India, I thought the Parsee family was portrayed very positively, and wondered why they were not also targeted. Shocking how terrible the outcome of partition was. How have the British avoided taking responsibility for the horrific consequences? We in the west never hear of the tens of millions of people thrown out of their ancestral homes or the millions who were slaughtered. The creation of Pakistan certaintly hasn't resulted in a more peaceful society. Surely if conflict had broken out between the ethnic groups, it couldn't have had a worse result than this?