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Horrible messages

posted 9 years ago by frl_charlie
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I don't understand why there is any love at all for this movie. The messages it promotes are so disgusting and discriminating.

First of all, why was it necessary to cast a white woman as Diya? Her dubbing was freaking horrible...cringeworthy. Her emotions were expressed well, though, so I'll give her that. Anyway, it is clear that the South Indians in particular seem to be deeply obsessed with women with light skin. Perhaps it's due to their own insecurities. They desire white women because they hate themselves for being indian. Whatever the reason, it's racist and pathetic. Yes they are racist to their own people. I hope someone can convince me that "fair and lovely" ad used in the movie was a sick joke, too.

Anyway, I won't bother writing an essay here as I doubt anyone actually saw past the impressive makeup/special effects and saw the movie for what it really is. An embarrassment for everyone involved.

[–] BecauseIAmBATMAN 9 years ago

Way to take the opposite of what the film was promoting.

Did IQ's just drop sharply while i was away?

[–] holygoddamn 9 years ago

I agree with the original poster. It doesn't matter what the message of this film is. They still decided to cast Amy Jackson in the lead, which is perpetuating underlying racism in the culture. Normally I would be completely fine with all races being cast in Tamil films, but because they don't change the male role to any other race or lighter colours, it's clear that the society is not able to handle it. They require males to be representative of the society, but not females. Females are whatever men want them to be.

Tamil and Hindi cinema needs to stop discriminating against darker-skinned women and cast them in just as many films as their male counterparts. It's getting to be ridiculous.

[–] frl_charlie 9 years ago

What was it promoting?

[–] inigo333 9 years ago

So what if a white woman is cast as a heroine in a Tamil movie? I did not see any one complain when Frieda pinto was cast as the hero's love interest in both the planet of the apes and immortals.

[–] frl_charlie 9 years ago

The problem is that she was given an Indian name and her voice was dubbed throughout the movie. Duh. Why is that hard to understand unless you're racist against indian women yourself. I'm not sure why indian men find white women more attractive anyway. All they have is their light skin. If anything, Indian women should (and probably are, honestly) be flocking towards non-Indian men. Men who at least aren't as misogynistic and deeply insecure.

[–] inigo333 9 years ago

She was given an Indian name because she played an Indian in the movie and obviously some else had to dub for her because she did not speak the language. Why is this hard for you to understand? Personally I don't care about skin colour but your comments prove that you do.

[–] bricksnmortar82 7 years ago

Gerard Depardieu, despite his French ethnicity, played Christopher Columbus, a Genoese Italian, in Ridley Scott's '1492'. Scotsman Sean Connery played a Russian Naval officer in 'The Hunt for the Red October', as well as a Maghrebi Berber (the title slips my mind at the moment). Speaking of Russian characters - how about Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes, etc - all non-Russians. Or Ed Harris as a German? Nobody bothered complaining about Adrien Brody, an American of Irish ethnic background, playing a Polish Jew (at least to my memory) in 'The Pianist'. Ashkenazi Jew Eli Wallach plays a Mexican in some Italian westerns. Yul Brynnyr did well as Pancho Villa and the King of Siam...

I've seen Chinese actors play Mongols, Koreans play Japanese, sub-Saharan Africans play African-Americans, Persians play Arabs, Germans play Irish, and so on and so on.

So lighten up a wee bit. Suspension of disbelief has always been required to some extant. What would you have done centuries ago when ALL characters, regardless of gender, were played by men?