We all went gaga over Coldplay’s impromptu gig in a Delhi bar. And then waited with bated breath for their video featuring India, Beyonce and Sonam Kapoor. But the video which came out on Friday, January 29, has not gone down well with the Indian Twitterati.
Here are some furious reactions:
Don’t get me wrong. I love Coldplay, but India is not snake charmers, kids dancing in the street and Holi all the time.
— bunts (@notBuntyPatel) January 29, 2016Mighty pissed that there’s no snake charmer in the new Coldplay video shot in exotic India. I take my stereotypes very seriously.
— cunt, comic cunt (@floydimus) January 30, 2016Good to see that the Western gaze still sees India in the same slumdog way. Bravo Coldplay.
— greatbong (@greatbong) January 30, 2016South Asia is only seen as desirable when we can be used as sad-looking, dark-skinned props that throw colorful powder everywhere @coldplay
— reclaimthebindi (@reclaimthebindi) January 30, 2016Could have used some snake charmers, but otherwise this new Coldplay video is pretty good. https://t.co/WjSDr7VQP7
— Prashanth (@wothadei) January 30, 2016Coldplay’s new video is under fire for appropriating Indian culture.
White Englishmen taking from India? I’m glad THAT never happened before— Erik Bransteen (@erikbransteen) January 29, 2016my two cents on this whole thing is: can people at least drag Coldplay’s creeping inaccurately portrayed obsession with eastern cultures?
— mí (@kcheersbye) January 29, 2016And the funny ones :
Sonam Kapoor vanished from the #Coldplay video faster than whisky at a Punjabi wedding
— TheFrustratedIndian (@FrustIndian) January 30, 2016Let’s not complain about Coldplay stereotyping India. Let’s just exact brutal revenge by having Himesh make more movies in the West.
— samit basu (@samitbasu) January 30, 2016Loving Sonam Kapoors ‘I will run and throw roses’ cameo in the Coldplay video.
Requires talent to do that.— Sahil Shah (@SahilBulla) January 30, 2016Sonam broke the record of her father Anil Kapoor (Mission impossible) in 4 minutes
Video, she was there5 marks for spotting Sonam Kapoor in the latest coldplay video.
— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar) January 29, 2016
(Feature image source: YouTube/Coldplay Official)
