Comments on: “Americanizing Shelley”

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:23:03 +0000

i’m so sick of the ‘non indian/non arab girls are so great’. rang de basanti, american blend, lagaan, and alot of other shit has desi boys with gori rundis….and so many desi boys r obsessed with white girls, latino girls, and black girls, but this is seen as a -ok. and so many cheer on the goris who sneak into bollywood films for god only knows what reason! but desi girls who revolt and do the same r seen as oh my god it’s so wrong. this picture is completely f..cked up.

By: ravinder

ravinder — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:38:48 +0000

LOVED THIS FILM…FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY. no idea what film nan watched but we thought this was a real funny film and a great comedy. well worth a watch and highly recommended. namrata singh gujral is gorgeous and charismatic. and btw, we love indiana jones too…so maybe just different tastes?

By: Nan

Nan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:32:44 +0000

Oh, MY GOD. I just watched the first half of this movie (don’t ask, friday evening plans got cancelled) and I cannot find words to express my…umm….nausea..Who is this woman who cannot pronounce the name Shalini? The College of Cooking and Cleaning in Himalayas, India? She wants an Indian curry?? And that’s just the factual inaccuracies. Never mind the fact that this movie is insulting to Americans, Indians and everyone in between, that it has an assimilationist agenda that it basically wears on its sleeve, that it panders to EVERY stereotype out there, even ones that don’t really exist, from the blonde cheerleader bimbette to the nerd (who apparently can land a job in LA by walking into the ‘celebrity manager’s’ office) to the sikh boy playing with the goats (WHY are there sikhs living in what looks like a nomadic tribe and mud huts in the himalayas, y’all?) God, this movie freaked me out on so many levels. I thought making simplistic assumptions about other cultures went out with the Indiana Jones movies (although that’s back from the dead as well, so maybe its a trend) Hi, Namrata Singh Gujral…this is 1932 calling, we’d like our limited world view back. Oh, and you’re an idiot.

By: Athene

Athene — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:26:31 +0000

This is in response to shallowthinkers comment -”please give a name of a leading actress in hollywood that was shown to be with a man of color and displayed physical contact on screen”. The movie ‘Love Field’ had Michelle Pfeiffer and Denzel Washington making out.

By: Raiders

Raiders — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:56:32 +0000

Hey guys, I saw the movie – must say very entertaining!! C’mon, you guys, get a life! Stop wasting your time writing s*** ! go watch the movie and get a laugh!!! Seems like theres one person who keeps logging on to post negative comments.. Perhaps some jealous indian actress who couldnt do big brother????? or is it some c grade horror movie director with a personal vendetta?????? Bye for now, I got stuff to do, unlike some of you (that was funny – for those who need to buy some sense of humor)

By: Saira

Saira — Fri, 11 May 2007 07:17:57 +0000

“Nayomi Cooper” is she the same as Namrata Singh? The web site lists both of them…the height of PR spinning.

By: Mohinder_Suresh

Mohinder_Suresh — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:19:30 +0000

looks like another cross over movie to me…but yeah the actress is banging . It’ll prolly be worth a donwload

By: Jasper

Jasper — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:29:31 +0000

Looks better than bend it like beckham

"Pappa I want to play football"

The only thing that made me laugh in the movie was the gay kid. "Your indian" lol, I cracked up at that. Stupid kid didnt know about hijrahs in india I guess.

By: Huey

Huey — Wed, 09 May 2007 04:45:46 +0000

Shallow Thinker's post (#42) speak volumes. It "Shelley" really does perpetuate (or the potential to further) the stereotype of the white male dream husband. Plus, not to mention, the other stereotype of the fear of lusting for or getting physical affection from black men. In fact, I'm surprised that Ronreaco Lee (the black actor) isn't stereotyped with bling. Usually, if a black male character is in a east-meets-west movie and plays the "white guy's best friend," it's usually boils down to three situations:

a). He's pushed in the background, has no life at all except to live vicariously through his white friend, thus making him more alluring to the international hottie du jour.

b). He's pushed in the background, as a paper tiger gigolo--always giving advice about women or talking about past sexcapades with women, but yet you never see him with a woman. Like a modern-day Isaac the waiter from "The Love Boat."

Or... c). He's portrayed as the gay black friend living vicariously through his buddy (see 'a' and 'b'), except this time he's the white guy's "queer eye" to help him understand the opposite sex and later capture his exotic love interest.

From what I heard about "The Pelican Brief", I thought Denzel voluntarily wanted the supposed "love scene" between his character and Julia Roberts' character cut out of the film, so as to not upset his huge black female fan base.

If it's playing in the Atlanta area, I might give it a chance. It's no "English Patient" but it's no "Soul Plane" either.

By: Neal (with no 'e')

Neal (with no 'e') — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:40:49 +0000

Michelle Malkin loves a film about how Asian women should play into the Orientalist stereotype and dump the misogynist, small-dicked Asian men for virile, masculine, cultured, sensitive white dudes?

Wow, this is incredibly hard for me to believe...