And On The Other Side You Have Our Own People Sludging It Through The Mud Im So Tired - Tumblr Posts

found this on my tl and i think it deserves to be said louder.

what post ru talking about

there was one under the gulshan devaiah tag. day ruined instantly

but also I was referencing just this trend I've seen of people starting off their posts/opinions about the movie with "it wasn't perfect, but-" or "It had its Several Flaws, but-" which is. fair. and all.

But why does literally the rest of bollywood not get the same treatment, yknow? Why is Indian queer content held to impossible standards, not even just queer content.

And this is not me making concessions for shit movies just because they're Woke™. This is about movies that actually delivered. Like badhaai do.

People who genuinely disliked it are literally so free to do so (I disagree, but to each their own).

But it seems to me like even the people who did like it are kinda being guilt tripped into saying it lowkey sucked. Which is. :/

Now I could've just encountered a disproportionately high number of people who said something along these lines. I'm probably generalising too much.

That being said

I can say with utter confidence that it was better than SO many Hollywood movies/Korean media out there.

And yet, there's such a weird system of internalised racism in place from growing up on an annoyingly fucking US/eurocentric internet that. We literally hesitate to shamelessly hype our own movies. Even the ones that have actually done well and have done right by the queer community.

Is that not tragic?

It's like we start off on this assumption that Bollywood = Terrible and then fight tooth and nail to hold onto that entirely baseless idea, just for the sake of.

What?

Ego?

Being "Not Like Other Indians I'm More Woke Because I Hate Bollywood?"

What is it?

Sorry about the rant. I'm just really sensitive about this because, hell man our movie industries get shit on and mocked by nondesis enough without us adding to it.

It's pretty much a given that movies featuring sensitive topics like this one will NOT be perfect. It doesn't have to be said unless it's a legitimate review- I've seen personal posts on here freaking out about badhaai do that are so self effacing it hurt my heart.

So. Annoying preachy PSA to everyone: next time you talk about queer content in Indian media, and the first words out of your mouth are something along the lines of "idk it wasn't great but personally I liked it idk" when you're more than allowed to say "it was FUCKING GREAT ACTUALLY."

Maybe ask yourself where it's coming from.

We're allowed to be proud of our own culture. I promise.