5 NRI Stereotypes You Have Bollywood To Blame For

Time for some general knowledge people! Did you know that today Pravasi Bharatiya Divas or NRI Day. Apart from your buas and mamis from ‘Kaneda’ and ‘Amrika’ our biggest insight into NRI lives is undoubtedly Bollywood.

Thanks to Karan Johar and many other, we have a deep insight into NRI lives and whether its Pardes, DDLJ or Namastey London, we have forever been trying to capture that lifestyle into our films. However, in this process, Bollywood has always tried to proplel many stereos. These are the most common NRI stereotypes that we have Bollywood to blame for.

Bratty

Raj from DDLJ, Jazz from Namastey London or Suman Ranganathan from Aa Ab Laut Chalein, guess what is common about them? They are all NRIs and all of them are bratty. Bollywood has rarely shown NRI characters who are not bratty and often ill-behaved. Why so mean to NRIs Bollywood?

Extreme Ends On Rich Scale

In the world Bollywood, NRIs either live in palaces and mansions that can put Buckingham Palace to shame or at least really fancy apartments or really dingy, cramped apartments. Even the ‘middle class NRIs’ shown in Bollywood have really spacious and grand living arrangements. Like seriously, we want answers!

Paranoid Dads

From Bauji in DDLJ , Rishi Kapoor in Namastey London or even Anupam Kher in Jab Tak Hai Jaan, according to Bollywood, NRI dads are always extra paranoid about the marriage of their daughters. Even Rishi Kapoor in Patiala House is trying to get someone or the other married. Can we seriously have a chilled out NRI dad in Bollywood?

Big Cities

Have you ever noticed that all NRIs in Bollywood always live in either New York or London? Have you ever seen an NRI family in Bollywood from Arkansas or Manchester? No…Never! Are we to believe that no NRI lives in small cities of America and England? Also, why only America, England and at the most Canada, what happened to other countries? Well, recently, we have also seen a little bit of France and other European countries, but even in France, people never live in Marseilles for examples. In fact, France is synonymous Paris for Bollywood. Why so biased Bollywood, why? So many questions, no answer.

Runaway Brides And Grooms Are Really Common

If you observe closely, you will notice a runaway bride or groom situation is alarmingly common in NRI related stories in Bollywood. From Ganga in Pardes, Simran in DDLJ, Jazz in Namastey London, Jia in Humko Deewana Kar Gaye, Shyra in Befikre and even Param in Namastey England more recently, they all ruin their own wedding days and leave people at the altar. So according to Bollywood, NRIs make terrible fiancés and your chances of being stood up at the altar are high if your fiancé is an NRI. We are not saying this, Bollywood is.