Either cinema, television, standing performances or the millions of memes that affect the Internet, the Indian Stereotypic family has always been an object of ridicule. Mothers are too controlling, the food is uncontrollably spicy, the left touches are annoying, privacy is obsolete, academic excellence flows through generations, and well … the list is too long to summarize here. But if you want a catalog of these, prime video could have just what you are looking for. His last series, The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh, is a deranged compilation of these comic family laws to which the Indians supposedly adhere and gives a shameless comment of 228 minutes on the same.
The program also adds the uncomfortable nature of conversations about intimacy in Indian families
The eight -episodes long series follows a typical Indian family, the PRADEPS, who moved to Pittsburgh in the United States, the land of opportunities, as they call it. The family is headed by Mahhesh (Naveen William Sidney Andrews), the optimistic engineer who made everyone move on the planet for a Spacex contract, and Sudha (Sindhu Vee), the mother of brain surgery that is having difficulties for Obtain your medical license in the new strict land on rules. Children include adolescent Bhanu (Sahana Srinivasan), the eldest daughter who is desperate to fit into the new culture; Kamal (Arjun Sriram), an introverted and shy young man with a lot of phobias; and Vinod (Ashwin Sakthivel), an optimistic high school student who sees the world through her rose -dyed glasses and remains positive even when she is intimidated.
However, this is not simply a story of an Indian family that has difficulty adapting to a foreign land. Pradeeps are also the main suspects in an ongoing investigation into a mysterious crime that involves its Christian neighbors, later revealed in the program. Now under the scanner of immigration services, the family is being questioned about the serious crime, with a possible risk of deportation.
Hilarious criminal investigation takes place in the program with the Pradeep family as main suspects!
The entire series is a sequence of flashback narratives with the two officers in charge trying to break these hard nuts to confess. The PRADEPS face in groups, trios, couples and even in isolation, but the brown family could not be more selfless, much less be intimidated, by the colorful research tactics.
The show is driven by the indifference of its characters and its very different perspectives for each incident. While Sudha could remember a snowstorm that causes his car to slide in slow motion before exploding in flames, “the Indians like to add a little masala to our stories” is how it would justify the exaggeration: Mahesh would describe the same day as a positive one that brought a new beginning of their lives. Oscillating narratives also extend to neighbors, who have their own twisted versions, which adds to confusion.
Each version seems to be the revealing truth until the next person between with a totally opposite version. The show even tries to portray the humorous similarities between Indian mothers and religious Christian mothers in a moment.
Episodes are short, crunch writings and effortless transitions. The general tone remains light and humorous. Even when it comes to serious issues such as racism, the program does not become serious at any time. Pittsburgh PRADEPS is carried as a meaningless high school drama where the protagonists have not yet fulfilled the toughest realities of life.
The character of Ashwin is fascinated by the comfortable lives of us the prints of the chickpeas, in contrast to their malnourished counterparts in their country of origin
The program, however, comes with a chain of stereotypes that are too used and dialogues and controversial analogies that could offend certain people. For example, in a scene, Bhanu describes India as a “supermodel with diarrhea.” Your explanation? Well, the country is beautiful in sight, but it does not offer a teenager much due to social restrictions and left touches. In another scene, we see a disabled white child mocking a note of 500 rupees and calling Gandhi an anorexic Charlie Brown. There are also references that a shy Indian child wakes up after ignoring a cow house. It is not surprising that the series is not publicized aggressively in India.
While a bit of harmless humor does not hurt, when a show is released worldwide, it comes with the responsibility of balancing the representation to some extent. While I am not asking exactly a monochromatic image only with the achievements of the nation, or a singularly patriotic narrative that paints the country as the largest on the planet, let’s leave that supremely talented politicians, a little more sensitivity could have been during a long time. shape. I do not want to dig up the debate about art and cinema that influences the perspective of the audience, but for spectators who have never visited India, these representations can build a certain narrative. As someone who lives in the country in question, I can assure you that we do not prepare in Saris bright and sherwanis just to go out to a dish of PanipuriAs PRADEPS could make you believe.
All the episodes of The PRADEE PS of Pittsburgh are short, writings creaks and effortless transitions
The Pittsburgh Pradeeps is not the first American program to opt for this poorly informed representation. The Big Bang theory, perhaps one of the most popular situation comedies of its time, also resorted to certain harmful stereotypes about the Indians. Raj, one of the main characters of the program, could not talk to women, trusted his father for his expenses and tried to control his sister’s love life, justifying his actions with the ancient writings that declare women as a property of his father or brother. All this despite being a talented astrophysic and a man of science. It is time for us to leave these stereotypical representations in the last century, where they belong, and opt for a more realistic representation.
However, Pittsburgh Pradeeps works as a cheerful comedy about the family problems of Indian diaspora in the United States, nothing more. The show is full of brain and superficial jokes around sex, religion, breeding of children and everything brown, and although some stereotypes are exaggerated beyond reasonable, an Indian audience will easily find moments of relativity. But if it is easily offended, or often is committed to blamers on Twitter (yes, we know what is called X now) with strangers and has great interest in canceling culture, it should probably omit this. That said, I love my nation very much. Do not cancel for recommending this series.
Qualification: 6/10
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