Like there's no elevator in India? No automatic door?
That's *beep* racist. and before you accuse me of being liberal, think real hard about what the trailer showed, and what you know about the rest of the world, outside of the US.
That was horrible, and the movie industry should know better by now.
Well when you guys watch the movie you will see that these two kids came from way way way way way out in the sticks. They've never seen a lot of things.
I saw the movie last night, one of the best movies I have seen in awhile!
The elevator scene lasted 20 seconds, and it was actually really cute/funny.
Stop being so ugly and negative, and automatically assuming the worst.
People in India who come from "way way out in the sticks" tend not to speak fluent English.
As far as not being familiar with elevators, even poor people in India are aware of Bollywood movies, which are very popular in India and which often depict things such as automatic doors and elevators.
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Seeing something in a movie and seeing it in person and actually interacting with it are completely different things.
shareThey didn't speak any English until they came to the U.S.
shareAshleydn88 did Suraj Sharma do a good job? I thought he was excellent in Life of Pi... I'm hoping that wasn't a fluke.
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You are absolutely right.In India no matter how expensive the building-even a hi-rise downtown,there will be shacks built next to it, then tents, then people with a bit of tin or cardboard,then people without anything. That's the pecking order. Do you think,even though those people live 40 feet from the hi-rise,they can go in the building? Impossible.They would be beaten.
shareI teach in a rural area of the Delta where there are legitimately AMERICAN kids who have never been on an elevator before or an escalator for that matter. Granted they are a bit younger (5th & 6th grade), but still...
One of my colleagues took the kids to a local power plant on a field trip for a tour and half the kids were freaked out about getting on the elevators because they had never been on one.
I also taught with a teacher who had never been to another state until she met a guy who lived across the river from us. Took her a month to get up the nerve to cross the bridge. Her whole life (all 25 years of it), she'd never gotten curious or had a need to cross a bridge that was wasn't mile from her. Her family had never done it, so why should she?
Thank you for ending this stupid argument with factual realities.
shareHave you ever been to India? It's as backwater as it gets.
shareThe end credits show actual photos of the real Rinku and Dinesh, and one of those photos shows Dinesh experimenting with the automatic door just as the character does in the film. The real Dinesh Patel had never been in such an elevator before, coming from a more rural area.
shareAgreed Totally.
shareIn the end credits they show the real home videos of this exact scene happening with the real Rinku and Dinesh.
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I don't think you know what the term racist really means. As far as the forced comedy, probably true, but I think a lot of things were forced about this movie. The whole previous client leaving the agency for more money (ala Jerry McGuire) was pretty irrelevant to plot of this movie IMO and it would have been better without it.
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