The sari that wasn’t
The Hindu
Is misrepresentation better than no representation? Not really
When And Just Like That, the reboot of Sex and the City, passed off a lehenga as a saree, I realised a cultural shift had happened.
Sarah Jessica Parker running down the steps in a Falguni Shane Peacock lehenga and calling it a saree is in a different league from Amrish Puri thundering Kali Ma with bloodshot eyes while chilled monkey brains are served for dinner in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom.
An Indian-American actor once said that after that film was released no one wanted to sit next to him at school. “They were convinced I had monkey brains in my lunch box,” he said. The irony was that this was Kal Penn aka Kalpen Modi, a good vegetarian Gujarati boy.
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