Comments on: Last Night’s TV – Mumbai Calling http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/last-night%e2%80%99s-tv-%e2%80%93-mumbai-calling/ All The Latest TV Gossip, News, Episode Updates and Spoilers From Your Favourite Soaps, Sitcoms and Primetime Shows. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Rohit Khanna http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/last-night%e2%80%99s-tv-%e2%80%93-mumbai-calling/comment-page-1/#comment-17287 Rohit Khanna Sun, 31 May 2009 19:44:42 +0000 http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/?p=14186#comment-17287 I hadn't read any reviews about this drool, unfortunately. The British love to ridicule foreigners. There is a big audience in the UK, hence the popularity of Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson. As people wised up to the racism, they became unacceptable, so they made Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at number 42, where the TV companies got indians to crack the racist, ridiculing jokes to satiate the British appetite to mock foreigners. Recently people have wised up to the Kumars as stereotypical ridiculing of Indians, so ITV has set the sit com in India where the ITV can claim that people do have those stereotypical accents and are bafoons. Mr. Basker for his part will do anything to get on TV. Mocking and denigrading fellow Indians does not seem to bother him. No wonder the Indians are not taken seriously in Britain. They only see stereotypical, racist ridicule Mr. Basker presents as comedy. TV companies are happy to exploit Mr. Basker as Mr. Basker being 'Indian', deflects criticism of racism. They had conspiritors like Mr. Basker in America in the early part of the 20th century, but then even the white Americans realised that it was stereotypical racism masquerading as humour. Shame on ITV, shame on Mr. Basker. This is all he is good for, to mock and stereotype Indians. Soon people will realise this bigotry as they realised the bigotry in 'Love Thy Neibour, The Kumars etc. Shame also on the Indians for keeping quite and not complaining. As long as the Indian don't complain, they'll never have respect, and the TV companies and Mr. Basker with his wife, will keep conspiring with their colonial masters. I hadn’t read any reviews about this drool, unfortunately. The British love to ridicule foreigners. There is a big audience in the UK, hence the popularity of Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson. As people wised up to the racism, they became unacceptable, so they made Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at number 42, where the TV companies got indians to crack the racist, ridiculing jokes to satiate the British appetite to mock foreigners. Recently people have wised up to the Kumars as stereotypical ridiculing of Indians, so ITV has set the sit com in India where the ITV can claim that people do have those stereotypical accents and are bafoons. Mr. Basker for his part will do anything to get on TV. Mocking and denigrading fellow Indians does not seem to bother him. No wonder the Indians are not taken seriously in Britain. They only see stereotypical, racist ridicule Mr. Basker presents as comedy.

TV companies are happy to exploit Mr. Basker as Mr. Basker being ‘Indian’, deflects criticism of racism. They had conspiritors like Mr. Basker in America in the early part of the 20th century, but then even the white Americans realised that it was stereotypical racism masquerading as humour.

Shame on ITV, shame on Mr. Basker. This is all he is good for, to mock and stereotype Indians. Soon people will realise this bigotry as they realised the bigotry in ‘Love Thy Neibour, The Kumars etc.

Shame also on the Indians for keeping quite and not complaining. As long as the Indian don’t complain, they’ll never have respect, and the TV companies and Mr. Basker with his wife, will keep conspiring with their colonial masters.

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