And there are the rom com obstacles – his wealth, her relative poverty his patrician mother, her immigrant mother his large family and her lack of one.Īll the familiar tropes are there. There’s Rachel Chu, a Chinese American, raised by a single mother, an economics professor of game theory in New York, plucky, pretty, perky, ready to be made over by her Gucci-wearing best friend and her very gay BFF. There’s Nick Young, educated in England, slumming it in New York as a professor of history, Singapore’s Prince Harry.
CRAZY CHOPPERS GUCCI MOVIE
A Warner Bros spokesperson in India confirmed ‘they don’t have plans for the theatrical launch” without giving any reasons, but isn’t it time for our own Crazy Rich Indian moment? Especially since we have so much in common with the movie and the book on which it is based, Kevin Kwan’s 2013 bestseller, Crazy Rich Asians?Īside from the hot pink Audis and customised Land Rovers, it is everything an Indian rom com on upscale Indians would be, the kind that Karan Johar would make for us before he became self conscious about his poshness. Warner Bros, the studio that produced it, is not planning a theatrical release of the Jon Chu-directed film in India. Released on August 15 to much love at the box office in the US, the movie is being hailed as the ‘ Black Panther moment’ for Asian Americans, albeit with some murmuring from Singapore about how it doesn’t represent the island state’s diversity (it focuses only on the Chinese community, virtually ignoring the presence of others.) Straight out of the lifestyles of the rich and famous in India, right? Yes, could be, but Crazy Rich Asians, from which these scenes are plucked out, is set in Singapore and features Indians only as burly guards and domestic staff. A Garden of Eden wedding in which each guest waves hundreds of handcrafted butterflies and fireflies on artificial branches, highlighted with LEDs and the bride wades through a stream of water in a waterproof wedding dress to get to the groom. Houses modelled on Donald Trump’s bathroom. A Rolex Daytona bought on a lark for the husband.
A welcome home party on the rooftop of the Marina Bay Sands hotel with the national synchronised swimming team performing in the infinity pool. A bachelor party featuring Miss World contestants on a container ship in the middle of the ocean with guests flown in on a squadron of $8 million Dauphin choppers. A Versace bomber jacket while lounging at home and ensuring your children finish what’s on their plate, because “think of all the starving children in America”.
A fashionable soiree to celebrate the blossoming of the tan hua cactus that happens only once a year, at night.
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