“DO YOU HAVE TOILETS IN INDIA?” – 3 IDIOTS

Though I loved watching Slumdog Millionaire , 3 months post its release in Hong Kong were a nightmare for me and I certainly did not recommend the movie to any one just to avoid all those silly questions on India.

It’s certainly no Slum-DOG, but “3-idiots” is turning out to be a dark-HORSE at the box office in China (who cares! I am just worried about Hong Kong). Having had to answer innumerable stupid questions after Slumdog’s release to the “Gong ju bengs” and their male equivalents in HK, I am relieved that 3-Idiots has largely been spared grueling questions such as ” Do you have toilets in India?”.

3-Idiots is what I strongly recommend as the Slum dog millionaire “hangover” pill.The movie is still in theaters (at least in IFC) , for all those “India is too hot” clichéd, curry-scared souls who prefer animation than anything related to real world. Even if you haven’t been terrorized by Slumdog’s version of India, give this movie a try for some good light-hearted humor (if you can sit through the 3 hour marathon).

Stop asking me or any of your Indian friends who sweat in the hot summer months of HK with the normal retort ‘but isn’t India more like err 50 degrees’. And for God sake, check Wikipedia to know where Bangalore is. And once you see the Chinese looking kids in Ladakh, don’t start cheering that “Chinese have taken over India”. India is a multi-ethnic society and we have Indians from the Mongolian race. We really love CHINESE food so much that it’s the second most favourite cuisine in India ( google GOBI MANCHURIAN for an authentic Indian-chinese dish)

Thank goodness that 3-idiots does not show Taj Mahal again (our only treasured jewel according to westerners/easterners) or the Mumbai slums (which most people think where 99.999% of India lives) and the beggars (perceived as the most common profession in India). The movie really shows we have a lot of people who can talk, think, rebel, sing, dance and most importantly LAUGH. It also shows that India is extremely beautiful and believe me that the Blue skies are not graphically modified.

Go check it out and do not spend time over-analyzing the issues India has – every country has it and just spend some time laughing your lungs out.

And finally if not for anything, but to figure out why bloody Indians are so damn talkative and have to have an opinion on almost everything on this earth, as to why they dance, horrible at Karaoke and many such silly things.

by Deepak

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