Name: Indian People Review Indian Characters From TV And Film
Uploaded: 2018-07-27T09:58:26.000Z
Duration: 8 min 26 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

- I've gotten plenty of 'thank you, come again.'

- Probably a step back, probably a step back for Indians.

- I grew up in India, I am Indian, and in this video,

we are going to be talking about fictional Indian characters

- The main gripe I have is that really it's just

- I think it's changed a lot over the past few years.

- We're not in the perfect moment, you know,

but I think we're, you know, we're coming along.

- I was thinking of dressing up as Indiana Jones'

- White writers, they always make an Indian name

for the character that even Indians can't pronounce.

I mean, I love Raj Koothrappali from the show.

- Probably the worst character on TV right now

I sort of have a love hate relationship with him.

- Really intelligent, he has a job in the field of science,

- Why does the Indian guy have to be the biggest loser

My whole life's basically one long Vagina Monologue.

- So, this is Mindy Lahiri from Mindy Project.

Mindy Lahiri is a really awesome character.

that we haven't seen before with South Asian females.

- I think it's a step forward to having Indians represented

in leading roles, which I think is very good.

I don't know if the show necessarily does the best job

given that she tries to ignore it for most of the show.

You assumed I was a racist just because I'm old.

- So, this is Dev Shah from Master of None.

This was a really groundbreaking show, I think,

People view him for what he is, not because he's Indian.

- Dev Shah is a pretty accurate representation of

what a lot of Indians would experience in America today.

- He talks a little bit more about relationships and dating

and career stuff through the South Asian lens.

disproportionate amount of white girls in this show.

Still want a brown girl here and there, you know?

- You know, Ben Kingsley did an accent in Gandhi

- But he didn't win the Oscar just for doing the accent.

I mean, it wasn't an Oscar for Best Indian Accent.

made them feel a little bit bad about it.

for a role that you might be perpetuating the same ideas

- While I find that enough of a turn on to get into this car

and do what we just did, in the long run,

playing the role of Alex Parrish from Quantico.

- The fact that she's playing this role is awesome.

So, for her to be kind of this sex symbol

where you really don't see actors and actresses

having that kind of physical relationship.

That's not a thing that Indian culture would've allowed,

but in this American show, it's a very natural thing.

- It's kind of refreshing to see this big step be taken