A trailer for the new Brie Larson movie has started to go viral, and not for the right reasons.
Basmati Blues appears to be a white savior trope film in which a scientist travels to India, eats spicy food, falls in love, and saves the local rice farmers with her brilliance.
Um, so why would the Oscar winner — who’s about to star in a huge Marvel blockbuster — agree to be in such an outdated flick by the writer-director of the David Arquette classic See Spot Run?
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Well, she didn’t really. That is, she didn’t when she was all those things. The movie was filmed years ago and set to come out in 2015. We guess we’re not surprised it was shelved but the growing star power of Larson has led to the film being given a 2017 release in India.
And Indian film fans are NOT happy about it!
See some of the most repulsed responses (below)!
I just saw the trailer of Basmati Blues. pic.twitter.com/Fqtsc4h25G
— Pri (@siriuslyveiled) November 9, 2017
FFS Hollywood, this is 2017 and you still don’t understand the East. Can you stop creating such generalising BS?https://t.co/25sfWqGhHU
— Samyak Sibasish (@SamyakSibasish) November 9, 2017
1) it’s called ‘basmati blues’, 2) um, what bakwaas is this? 3) they do know it’s set in a country where farmers are committing suicide? (probs not) https://t.co/ajOvhSKbpd
— Rishita Nandagiri (@rishie_) November 9, 2017
This is ridiculous, they’ve completely ignored the culture of the country. Typical to portray India as about rice, spicy food, poverty, poor English and cringy music. India don’t need a White saviour. We’re good without them.https://t.co/ZxdCLmyn8n
— Rahul W (@rahulw_) November 9, 2017
Aren’t enough words in the world to describe how cringe #BasmatiBlues is. WHY @UTKtheINC, WHYY? “The train of progress cannot be stopped” it seems. Massive trainwreck only.
— Swetha Sridhar (@swethasridhar92) November 9, 2017
Oh great it’s cringey white-people-in-India-saving-the-brown-savages season again. https://t.co/1ksFG6RYkm
— Harnidh Kaur (@PedestrianPoet) November 8, 2017
I really admire and respect @brielarson , but dont go “India is an exciting journey” on us yaa.├░┼╕ΓÇÖΓÇ¥https://t.co/C8Ie3a7QJo
— Sucharita Tyagi (@Su4ita) November 8, 2017
It’s 2017 & they’re really still releasing these things. https://t.co/yzPbGKOt5G
— Anil Dash (@anildash) November 9, 2017
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