Comments on: Ocean’s Eighteen: Indian Tourists in Vegas

By: Puliogre in da USA

Puliogre in da USA — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:25:56 +0000

attractive indian waitresses not wairing enough, flirting with the patrons, etc

and attractive indian waitors for the ladies. how can i forget...

By: Puliogre in da USA

Puliogre in da USA — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:18:29 +0000

If i had a $1 billion i would call mine Kamasutra, an adult theme oriented hotel/resort. The hotel will be filled with statues of various poses u see on temples. suites will be based on a theme from the kamasutra.

attractive indian waitresses not wairing enough, flirting with the patrons, etc.

By: nr

nr — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:15:02 +0000

If i had a $1 billion i would call mine Kamasutra, an adult theme oriented hotel/resort. The hotel will be filled with statues of various poses u see on temples. suites will be based on a theme from the kamasutra.

you require only half a billion I will put the remaining half

By: HMF

HMF — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:52:41 +0000

Do the AC casinos use the Griffin book.

By: Ashi

Ashi — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:44:12 +0000

9:Chachaji:But the thing that struck me at Atlantic City was how many desis were working for the casinos - as dealers, cash counters, security guards, and so on. I was stunned by the sheer numbers. Both men and women; and Gujaratis, Bengalis, Punjabis, Tamils (all the main groups) seemed very well represented. Anybody know what the, er, deal is on that?

Why be confused by this? There is an insanely large South Asian population in NJ, and Atlantic City offers a lot of jobs with flexible hours and minimum requirements for English. I think it's great that South Asian immigrants are hard working and willing to work hard, snatch up motels and businesses along the shore.

Anyway, I've never been to Vegas, but Atlantic City a million times since college. I've always laughed at the congregation of Desi visitors at Trump Taj with video cameras. People this is not real!! And, it's crazy how you can go into one of the other casinos and not see any desis w/cameras.

BTW, Atlantic City has become really cool these days.. in the summer, the hotels have beach bars, live bands and there are outlets behind the boardwalk. We were walking around amazed that we were in Atlantic City.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:21:26 +0000

I recommend a movie though. And since no Indian man has the last name Samunder, the movie will have to be called Roshan's 11: No quarters given. (I said quarters, you know, for the slot machines, because we're too cheap to play anything else).

Of course, the leader will be, who else, Amitabh Bachchan. The movie will have to be set in the Mandalay (since I've never been to Vegas, I'll assume) which has hot, steamy jungles replete with lots of trees to cavort around and birds to cut to at appropriate moments. One nice thing about a Bollywood movie set in Vegas is that the musical numbers for the shows fit right in.

The modus operandi of the good guys of course will involve Amitabh Bachchan walking in at the climax and destroying the casino by his customary chewing of the scenery. Salman will stun all the guards by whipping off his shirt and waving it frantically above his head, while Hrithik will wave his second thumb at the few remaining sane visitors. This guy will then find his way into the elevators, replace the video feed to the call center guys in Bangalore, and while the evil casino owner is busy looking for the heist-meisters, they will all wear a hat a la Thomas Crown and walk out unscathed.

By: Floridian

Floridian — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:02:28 +0000

Amardeep: "many of my relatives were awed by the lights and sounds of Las Vegas"

I am a world traveller, and I am still awed at the audacity and unabashed luxury of Vegas every time I am on the Strip. To this 54-year old immigrant, Vegas epitomizes American chutzpah. I mean OUR very desi American chutzpah, not anybody else's. Why am I being so analytical? Vegas is so much adult fun, and that's that! My wife and I love bar hopping till two in the morning, catching acts along the way, something we are too proper to do back in our hometown. So it is true. What goes on here, stays here!

Hey Amardeep, my ambition is to take my extremely well travelled, 81-year old dad to show him the one city that beats everything he has ever seen. Maybe this year.

By: Runa

Runa — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:32:04 +0000

64,

Only 1 in Goa that I know of called Nuggets

By: Sadaiyappan

Sadaiyappan — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:48:46 +0000

I remember when I first got on the strip an SUV drove by and some woman rolled down the window and flashed all of us. Anyways I was wondering what the Indian version of Las Vegas is? Do they even have casinos in India?

By: Amardeep

Amardeep — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:27:30 +0000

aa, to be fair, that was several years ago. You might want to check the tourist review websites to see what people are saying about it today. (Maybe they've fixed the problems they were having -- when I went there it was mostly a small pond surrounded by acres of mud that used to be the lake.)