Re: [silk] Er, Are We, Like, Confused Or Something?

["Frank Pohlmann" <fp_wroxindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Curious: I felt constrained to enter the debate for fear of offending
anyone. I suppose I lived in the US for too long. A salutary reminder....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reeta Sinha" <reetas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <silk-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [silk] Er, Are We, Like, Confused Or Something?


|
| >The makers of American Desi are smart, they knew how to make money. They
| >could read the pulse of the average movie goer. I don't think they were
| >ever confused - they successfully conned lots of people
| >into believing their claim that the movie is a sensitive exploration into
| >the lives of Indian Americans.
|
| Make the title of my film
| "We're Not Confused, We're Just Dishonest" ;-)
|
| >The pre screening publicity and reviews were misleading enough to make
even
| >discerning people go watch it only to come out feeling
| >dismayed.
|
| Sounds like so much of the hype that surrounds novels by NRIs. I regret
| spending $23 on Suri's "Death of Vishnu." But we live and learn. Won't go
| near Chitra Banerji's "The Unknown Errors of Our lives."
|
| >I read a few newspaper reviews here - even those that
| >criticize the movie are  careful - may be the feeling
| >is that it is politically incorrect to criticize a
| >"cross cultural" effort - yours is
| >  the only honest appraisal I have seen till date.
|
| Odd situation.
| I expect the "anything-exotic-has-to-be-good BS from the (white) American
| press, but it gets nauseating when desis here do it also. I remember
vaguely
| when it was announced Purva Bedi would appear in an ER episode. SAJA's
| 'voice' Sree Srinivasan gushed along the lines of how an Indian-American
had
| made it, we should be so proud of her, go tell everyone to watch and make
| sure she gets the credit she deserves. All proper South Asian
| journalist-types fell into line with more of the same.
|
| A sane voice finally posted something like "shoudn't we see if she can
act,
| first?"
|
| reeta
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