Tuesday, May 20, 2008

cheetahs in the homeland



The Disney Channel took a spicy spin as they just announced the release of the third Cheetah Girls movie, "Cheetah Girls: One World," in India.
Whoa, wait a minute, the girls in India? Exciting right? Well why shouldn't I be, finally 14-year-old girls can see what India is all about. Pretty skinny girls dancing to Indian music while wearing long pink Sarees. Colourful markets of food and jewelry while everyone else lives in huge palaces with 40 maids.
That last part probably gave away the sarcasm but here we have young kids who think of paki-dots and smelly curry when they probably think about 'Indian' and now get to see first hand what India is "all about."
The movie apparently is taking a Bollywood musical aspect, because that is what we do in India all day--sing. The girls all try out for a Bollywood movie (in real life this might happen since most of Bollywood thinks they are Western anyways,) and dun-dun-dun the girls find out the have to fight each other for the role! Oh no! I can already see the entire plot and ending to that one.
It doesn't bother me that much yet since I have never seen the movie, but I guess when I finally see the exploitation of Indian culture, I might just build this argument further.
India is not like that, we once were, but sadly we are not like what we see in Bollywood movies.
But big-ups for choosing India we got money in the end anyways!
P.S the blogging dictionary doesn't have the word 'Bollywood' ...thanks.
P.S.S they don't have Raven in it this time!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

WOW SCRAPPED IT OFF ME?!?!?!?!

I'M Going to SUE!!!!!