'Basmati Blues' Trailer Disappoints. 'Cultural Appropriation' Says Twitter

The trailer of Oscar-winner Brie Larson's latest offering, 'Basmati Blues', is viral for all the wrong reasons. The cliche-rich trailer, complete with a Bollywood dance sequence, shows Larson's character travelling to India to sell genetically-modified rice to farmers. The two and a half minute clip, which shows all things stereotypically 'Indian' like stray goats and spicy food, has been thrashed online for 'white-washing' and cultural appropriation. 'Cringe-worthy' has been used often in tweets to describe the 'Basmati Blues' trailer.

While many expressed their disappointment with Larson for signing up for the role of the "white savior to Indian people," others slammed the trailer for generalizing a culture down to outdated cliches like a horse-riding heroine who dances to Bollywood music.

Watch the Basmati Blues trailer below:



Here is what people are saying about the 'Basmati Blues' trailer:
 

FFS Hollywood, this is 2017 and you still don't understand the East. Can you stop creating such generalising BS?https://t.co/25sfWqGhHU

- Samyak Sibasish (@SamyakSibasish) November 9, 2017

I just saw the trailer of Basmati Blues. pic.twitter.com/Fqtsc4h25G

- Pri (@siriuslyveiled) November 9, 2017

Using my 280. Okay so Brie Larson is in this movie called (uhg) #BasmatiBlues (ew) and I'll be damned if she can even PRONOUNCE Basmati (and no, it's not BAZ-MAH-TEA). White people are always gonna make cringy movies about India, its a fact, but this trailer takes the CRINGE CAKE

- Anjali Rathore (@jellibean0415) November 10, 2017

I love Brie Larson but I hope "Basmati Blues", a movie where she goes to India and saves locals from tainted rice, flops.

- jody (@qoroq) November 9, 2017

#BasmatiBlues is what happens when you let whites have creative freedom wrt Indian culture + how to interpret it.

- Nia C (@sleepyhollowkid) November 10, 2017

Sarcastic max
 

India has had such strong revolutionaries including Gandhi and, more recently, @brielarson. #BasmatiBlues

- Y Ziddy (@YusufZiddy) November 9, 2017

People were really offended
 

"The train of progress cannot be stopped." Basmati Blues has done quite a good job of that, actually

- Deepti Unni (@Deepti_Unni) November 9, 2017

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