Was Namaste London Regressive? - Page 2

Originally posted by: Stella_001

Agreed .. the way people in Jazz’s life criticised her lifestyle and used to preach about so called culture like wtf !! She did nothing wrong but lived her life on her own terms .. and ending of the movie creeped me out like why should jazz leave her life and career behind and settle down somewhere else ?! Why couldn’t they show Arjun settling down in London ...

@bold, because she's a woman. So she has to give all the sacrifices in the end no matter how mahaan her husband is.

If Arjun settled in London then all relatives would've mocked him for becoming Ghar jamai and using Jazz to get foreign Visa.

And in the end, the film was about Jazz accepting Indian culture and what better way than showing her setting in a village in India and becoming a housewife?

Originally posted by: Stella_001

Agreed .. the way people in Jazz’s life criticised her lifestyle and used to preach about so called culture like wtf !! She did nothing wrong but lived her life on her own terms .. and ending of the movie creeped me out like why should jazz leave her life and career behind and settle down somewhere else ?! Why couldn’t they show Arjun settling down in London ...

Exactly!

My biggest problem was that it was showing forced marriage to be correct...

Plenty of other stuff wrong with it too though....

Originally posted by: Anjalika01

Exactly!

My biggest problem was that it was showing forced marriage to be correct...

Plenty of other stuff wrong with it too though....

It is ? It is it showing Arjun is the hero and the gora is the zero. 😆

Arjun was friendly guy.

Same problem with Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani

Bunny stayed back for Naina's career

Originally posted by: Harley_Quinn

@bold, because she's a woman. So she has to give all the sacrifices in the end no matter how mahaan her husband is.

If Arjun settled in London then all relatives would've mocked him for becoming Ghar jamai and using Jazz to get foreign Visa.

And in the end, the film was about Jazz accepting Indian culture and what better way than showing her setting in a village in India and becoming a housewife?

Why does she need to "accept" Indian culture? I never understood that. She was not Indian, she was British.

Originally posted by: Mahisa22

Why does she need to "accept" Indian culture? I never understood that. She was not Indian, she was British.

She needs to change the culture then 😆😆

People talk about #fortheculture

Go an make the culture your own 👍🏼

Originally posted by: 2RsFan

How was it regressive ?

. Bashing a girl for drinking/smoking (not because it's bad for her health), but just because she's a girl

. A girl wanting to move out of her parents' house without marriage is wrong

. A girl becoming "westernised" (for no reason other than growing up in the west) is wrong

. Then worst of all, justifying the acts of parents who forcibly get their daughters married off to strangers without their consent, and showing girls that use legal help to escape such situations as wrong

. Somehow trying to wrap their regressive fears about girls in the west as patriotism for India

Originally posted by: Harley_Quinn

@bold, because she's a woman. So she has to give all the sacrifices in the end no matter how mahaan her husband is.

If Arjun settled in London then all relatives would've mocked him for becoming Ghar jamai and using Jazz to get foreign Visa.

And in the end, the film was about Jazz accepting Indian culture and what better way than showing her setting in a village in India and becoming a housewife?

like Bollywood literally think embarrassing Indian culture means women becomes housewife and settle down in a village

Originally posted by: Mahisa22

Why does she need to "accept" Indian culture? I never understood that. She was not Indian, she was British.

Because Indian culture is sanskari and British culture is unsanskari.

Her parents were Indian, so she too is an Indian by heart. Doesn't matter if she was born and stayed her whole life in England. Her roots are Indian

Movie logic, not mine.

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

It is ? It is it showing Arjun is the hero and the gora is the zero. 😆

Arjun was friendly guy.

Yeah the other guy was a racist asshole and Arjun was a decent guy... but that doesn't make Jazz's dad's actions in the beginning correct, or make her wrong for being westernised