Casting painfully obviously Indian actors as Pakistanis or Afghans is like Shaun Connery in The Untouchables playing an Irishman with a Scotch accent, or Shaun Connery in the Hunt for Red October playing a Russian with a Scotch accent, or Shaun Connery in Highlander playing a Spaniard with a Scotch accent...
You get the drift. It's pure aural cringe, and shows contempt for the subjects. "Asia" is not one big monoculture, and Hollywood needs to do better if it wants to live up to its woke rhetoric.
You get the drift. It's pure aural cringe, and shows contempt for the subjects. "Asia" is not one big monoculture, and Hollywood needs to do better if it wants to live up to its woke rhetoric.