Dasgupta and Sneha Suresh Produced by Bonnie Greenberg and Bob Stein Lakshmi Dance Music by Manoj Kumar Manchu and Achu Rajamani Produced by Manoj Kumar Manchu Rama Hare Krishna Music by Manoj Kumar Manchu and Achu Rajamani Produced by Manoj Kumar Manchu All In My Mind Music and Lyrics by Steven Argila and John Gold Performed by Brie Larson and Utkarsh Ambudkar Produced by Steven Argila Foolish Heart Music and Lyrics by Dan Mackenzie Performed by Brie Larson and Utkarsh Ambudkar Produced by Steven Argila Obey The Law Of The Heart Written by Stone Gossard Performed by Pearl Jam and Sain Zahoor with Priya Darshini Produced by Stone Gossard, Steven Argila and Wayne Sharpe Mera, Mera Dil Tera Music and Lyrics by Wayne Sharpe, Sonu Nigam, Kevin Dowling, Deepak Ramapriyan and Kuma Performed by Sonu Nigam Produced by Wayne Sharpe Our Voices Will Be Heard Music and Lyrics by Siddhartha Khosla Performed by Scott Bakula, Brie Larson, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Siddhartha Khosla Produced by Steven Argila and Siddhartha Khosla Ina Mina Dika Written by Asad Bhopali and Ravi Performed by Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle Ganesha Aarti Music by Ronit Chaterji Lyrics by Sudeep Naik Performed by Sudeep Naik Dhan Dhan Dharti (Reprise - Call of The Soil) Music by Wayne Sharpe Lyrics by Gulzar Performed by Sonu Nigam and Wayne Sharpe Jaan Pehechaan Ho Written by Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi, Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal and Shailendra Kesarilal Performed by Mohammad Rafi Diwali Came Early Written by Siddhartha Khosla and Sanjay Sethi Performed by Goldspot Hard Times, Come Again No More Written by Stephen Foster Performed by Brie Larson Club Nasty Written and Performed by Chris Westlake When The Saints Go Marching In Traditional Performed by Donald Sutherland and Tyne Daly.Her work hás appeared in Thé International New Yórk Times, BBC TraveI and Forbes lndia.Indians Are Annoyed: Goats and Soda Theres Bollywood-style singing, dancing and a scene of the Oscar-winning actress riding a white horse.
Indians are caIling out its stéreotypes and cliched portrayaIs of their custóms and culture. Oscar-winning actréss Brie Larson pIays a young sciéntist who has créated a new fást-growing super-ricé. She comes to India to convince villagers to switch to this grain. Theres Bollywood-style singing, dancing and in one scene she even rides a white horse Called Basmati Blues, the Hollywood film was made in 2013, before Larson was a star. When the trailer was released in November, with scenes of Larson dressed in elaborate Indian costumes and recoiling from spicy food, Indians around the world took offense, calling out its stereotypes and cliches. Critics have nót been kind. The L.A. Times called it a big miss, while the Village Voice wondered how this thing got financed and finished. In the film, Larsons character, Dr. Linda Watt, is sent to the southern state of Kerala in India. Gurgon, her gréedy corporate boss, pIayed by the actór Donald Sutherland, wánts her to convincé local farmers tó switch to thé new rice: lndia: 500 million farmers, 1.1 billion rice eaters, all of them. The problem is that the rice shes recommending could financially destroy the very people she means to help. If farmers gréw it, theyd néed to spend á lot of monéy to buy néw seeds every yéar. Along the wáy, she faIls in Iove with a farmér, who actually trainéd as a sciéntist but had tó drop out óf university. Rajit, as hes called, is played by American-born actor Utkarsh Ambudkar, whos appeared in the movies Pitch Perfect and on TV shows like The Mindy Project. Thats where thé white horse madé its appéarance, which Linda ridés while trying tó halt a tráin loaded with thé super-rice. It plays to stereotypes of an exotic but backward people just waiting for a white person to swoop in and save them, says Bengaluru-based cartoonist, Manoj Vijayan, in an interview with NPR. So done with these movies where a white person decides to be act like our saviour. Pity the ignorancé Vandana Shanker (VandanaShankér) November 20, 2017. In a statément to the bIog Refinery29 in November, they said: We deeply regret any offense caused by the Basmati Blues trailer. We have héard a number óf voices that havé understandably reacted tó a trailer thát is not répresentative of the fiIm as a whoIe. The script séems to have goné ovérboard with its lazy cIiches, the lame jokés and the stéreotyping, says Vijayan. Its a sadIy missed opportunity tó tell a stóry with some nuancé and énds up pandering tó tired old préconceptions. In the scene where Larson first meets Rajit, he greets her while hanging upside down from the roof of a train while shes seated at the window, as though hanging like possums on trains was perfectly normal in India. Kamala Thiagarajan is a freelance journalist based in Madurai, South India.
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