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American actor Brie Larson’s upcoming movie Basmati Blues have come under criticisms for being packed with criticisms about India. Everything from a goat kicking a foreigner at a railway station to people talking in poor English, the movie has been lambasted on social media for portraying rural India the way it is. Basmati Blues is due to release on November 24 and is already being scrutinised by the social media for its content. In the movie, Brie Larson plays an American scientist who works for a company that produces genetically modified rice.
Larson is then sent to India to convince farmers to buy this rice but she realises that the scenario is different and decides to fight against the corporation. The foreigner suddenly becomes the saviour of the farmers and helps them get their rights. She also falls in love with a local and decided to tie the knot with him. Basmati Blues has also been ridiculed for narrating the story from a white saviour’s perspective who comes all the way to save poor Indians. A scene from the movie where Larson’s character looks into a microscope in a moving train in India further raged social media users.
Of all the bewildering, offensive moments in the #basmatiblues trailer, this one was by far the most unbelievable ♀️ pic.twitter.com/mgk5daFfPu
— noosh (@anousha_e) November 14, 2017
The whole trailer is super cringe-worthy but I lost it when white saviour girl pulls out a microscope on a moving Indian train #BasmatiBlues pic.twitter.com/lj4aWT9JmG
— bad day everyday (@sherinlinda) November 9, 2017
#basmatiblues is a terrible looking film filled with loads of stereotypes about Indians & India. We don’t need another movie about white saviours when we did everything in our power to get white people out of our country. Stop making shit films. Please
— Neha Wanikar (@nehawanikar21) November 9, 2017
#BasmatiBlues trailer made me feel like we r still in colonial India. Trust whites to teach Indians to do anything, right? Coz obviously we r dumb. Well, think again. #culturalappropriation have anyone from the movie crew ever been to India??? #SMH https://t.co/02MUv97tZU
— RuMillenial (@Zickey_M) November 10, 2017
Spicy food, poverty and walking barefoot on roads are other stereotypes in the movie.
just saw 30 seconds of the #basmatiblues trailer and had to turn it off… pic.twitter.com/pySZZelGeB
— esteban julio ricardo montoya de la rosa ramírez (@trllhunters) November 14, 2017
hey @brielarson youre an award winning actress you had to know what you were doing with #basmatiblues. what were you thinking? did you need that role? im genuinely asking. i dont see another reason to throw an entire culture back 50 years especially when the west still indulges1/
— Jordan C. Rider (@itsjordanrider) November 15, 2017
Neither do we greet like this #BasmatiBlues #HollywoodStereotypes pic.twitter.com/3dZWqH6ESg
— Keshav Kalsi (@kalsirbz) November 15, 2017
After the trailer received criticisms, the movie’s director Dan Baron and producer, Monique Caulfield said, “This movie is not about an American going abroad to solve India’s problems. At its heart, this film is about two people who reach across cultures, fight against corporate greed, and find love.” Although Basmati Blues began production in 2013 it was delayed by four years. Brie Larson is an Oscar-winning actress and will be next seen in Captain Marvel. Earlier this year, the popular band Coldplay came under heavy criticisms for similarly stereotyping India in their song video ‘Hymn For The Weekend’.
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