Comments on: Daily Show on Shah Rukh Khan: Aasif Mandvi’s “Wheelhouse”

By: laxman

laxman — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:13:36 +0000

6 TTCUSM

After all, he is paler than 90% of the Indian population…

Isn’t that to put it bluntly a totally dumb-a** thing to say…. According to ur statement close to 90 percent of the population…shud be 900 million ppl…are less light/dark as compared to SRK’s skin tone in movies…. INDIA has a billion ppl…there ppl in the northeat who have mongloid features, who range in skin tones from the lightest specturm to the brownest…same thing with the kashmiris all the way in the north…though they tend to lean towards the lighter end…..and this pattern exhibits it self all over india…only difference being in certain regions certain shades tend to dominate over others…but you will tend to most shades in every region….

thats as dumb as saying….i thought 90% of chinese eyes were less slanted than yao mings….or something as irking-ly annoying…

By: shellifer

shellifer — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:17:16 +0000

hahahaha. aasif, you're too funny, yaar. I don't watch the Daily Show nearly as often as I'd like, but some months ago, my friend sent me a link to another Aasif rant re: bobby jindal. Anyone else remember that one?

Also, this is my first post to sepia mutiny - my first visit to the site, actually! Where have I been?? I love it! keep up the good work, y'all. You'll be showered with love on my blog, too.

By: CMF

CMF — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:37:08 +0000

What is the indian word they bleeped out? Was it in Tamil or Hindi? I’m always up for learning indian expletives.

By: baingandabhartha

baingandabhartha — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:21:12 +0000

So he is not really that light and the make and lights make him look light huh-are we sure about that….I think I need a few more posts about that…

By: Mr.Wise

Mr.Wise — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:39:26 +0000

6 TTCUSM, I was referring to the fact that after all the media coverage SRK has received in the US post his detention brouhaha, I’m pretty sure that people have an idea who he is. I wasn’t generalizing about Bollywood, although a fair section of people probably know about it as well. And yeah, as several posters mentioned, SRK isn’t really all that fair. It’s the make-up in the movies that makes him look lighter.

By: Srini

Srini — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:14:00 +0000

(Did they bleep it live too?)

Yes, they did

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:23:07 +0000

While I agree that the lights make actors seem much lighter in Hindi films, I’d also like to point out that those harsh lights are a choice and specifically used to make them seem fairer. Genelia D’Souza, for example, was in the medium brown range in her Southern films and in Jaane Tu, and looking at the promos for her new film, her face has been lit to make it seem much lighter. Watch SRK’s films from the early 90s and you could see his real skin colour.

By: CisternaChyli

CisternaChyli — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:49:19 +0000

Hillarious! I wanna go to the Indian part of Tampa . Yo Aasif im down brah!

By: Kush Tandon

Kush Tandon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:55:56 +0000

I saw SRK quite close a few days ago @ South Asian Carnival in Houston.

He is very fit, and quite an entertainer.

He is not that fair and not even that tall. For that matter, even Katrina Kaif (who is half white) is not extremely fair.

He does have a strong presence, and knows to work the crowd.

In movies, the extreme glare of the light along with makeup, makes them look them little different.

By: ptr_vivek

ptr_vivek — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:52:46 +0000

Hilarious

Haven't read the comments, but two nitpicks: 1) it might make for a good joke, but if that's Jon Stewart's idea of NJ, he needs to visit Edison; 2) maadarchod might be ubiquitous at this point, but there are plenty of better-suited cities to which he could have attributed it. Yeah yeah, alliteration, I know.