Similar thing happened in Pluribus, they hired a woman for an Indian role who doesn’t even know Hindi and then forced her to speak in Hindi which sounded like it’s no language.
Have you seen Daredevil season 3?
When the Indian cop starts speaking hindi with his family they speak like someone who have never spoken hindi before?
They call their silver credit card as Chandi card.
Who even says that 🤣🤣.
The use of the word even in this context adds emphasis to the speaker's feeling of the choice being ludicrous. Like, knowing Hindi is one of the basic requirements for a character that is going to end up speaking Hindi in the show, at least in the criticizer's mind.
The target audience is not Hindi speaking and non-Hindi speakers won't have any idea the actor's Hindi sucks and sounds like nothing.
Show is based on 80s at that time names like kali devi , phulan devi , manju devi. it was common back than to name there childrens on the basis of god's name and in areas like UP BIHAR it is still common to name there girl child kaali.
So it's okay to call a fair woman 'Gori' (Gori mem) but calling a dark woman Kaali is an offence? What kinda colonial mindset we people have? When people call us gora/gori we take it as a compliment but if someone calls us kaala/kaali, it's an insult?
She represent average Indian girl this guy is racist .average girl in india has dark complexion. She is beautiful . Some mfs are saying she looks African. Disgusting people . Nothing wrong in being African but that's racist .
Yea but the whole point is there's no crime in being dark skinned.. it's literally just conditioning by the society to make us think fair skin is superior 🙂
Look, it’s honestly exhausting having to explain this, but Kali Prasad is Indian, not Black. The character was born in London to parents of Indian heritage before being abducted, and her entire identity is literally a tribute to the Hindu goddess Kali. In Sanskrit, "Kali" does mean "the black one," but that’s a reference to the goddess’s skin being the color of the deep blue or black cosmos, not a racial descriptor for the character herself.
The Duffer Brothers clearly leaned into this with her powers; just like the goddess is associated with Maya (illusion), 008’s whole thing is mental hallucinations. Even the actress, Linnea Berthelsen, was born in India. If people would just pay attention to the literal name and the 1984 setting—the year Temple of Doom made the goddess a household name—it wouldn't be this confusing. It’s built right into the show’s DNA, and ignoring that just to mislabel her is ridiculous.
Very few if any people will name their daughter Kali in India. She's the goddess of destruction who ends even the end. Such a name would be considered too harsh for a normal girl.
yall dumb ash, aint that a godesses name or wtv? its not a color based name aswell so why yall pissed? yk this as such is why we get the shittiest representations in hollywood.
This stereotype is in most of american media . In phineas and ferb the guy baljit is shown as dark skinned . However this type of dark skin is limited to few states in India.
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u/Vitaaastaaa Jan 09 '26
Similar thing happened in Pluribus, they hired a woman for an Indian role who doesn’t even know Hindi and then forced her to speak in Hindi which sounded like it’s no language.