Do Buy! a Dubai Documentary (Part 3)

[omairways]

I made this film and I am a Muslim, Indian/British dude. Do you think my film is making fun of anyone? It is more about the absurdity/attraction of this place.

[Abercrombie10112]

All those christian kuffar Americans are jealous. That's why they are making fun of us.

[gimmelgimmel]

What a hellhole.

[fcpEDITOR1]

I have mixed feelings about the documentary. Perhaps it was intentional not to have proper narration to guide the viewer through it, but as an expat born and living in Dubai I do feel you neglected many different angles of the same reality in Dubai....and as a professional editor, I believe a good script and a different approach to editing could have made me realize this as a great documentary. Just a thought...just an opinion. God bless...

[usy444u]

Sick documentary lolz 5 stars

[xxandr]

Sorry to be negative but you need money EVERYWHERE, not just in dubai.

[NodrogTrax]

@xxandr But this is Dubai. Western televised culture tends to distort perceptive planes, as you have demonstrated. If everything is not right here at once you cannot fathom, you get frustrated, and you get offended by the lack of complete inclusion. You know one or two things outside of the documentary, to some minor degree at least, and the documentary is responsible to your individual experience, says prevailing Western notions. Interrelations are your responsibility alone. Think instead.

[NiteAngel]

by by Dubai....... lol what a sick country

[puntme]

that mall cop was incredibly insightful, also when that guy said they have no class he was really spot on. great documentary

[Mudug2006]

puntme, yes that's true, the mall cop seemed intelligent, like someone who's University Educated, perhaps back in India. And it's too bad he's a mall guard, but who knows it's probably a stepping stone for him.

I see FIVE STARS for him in the future,

[ButherLi55ett]

and some flashing lights!!

[ButherLi55ett]

yep, cos you can only hav intelligence if u go 2 univercity!!! but for the likes of patronising and paternalistic scumbags like yourself he only 'seemed' intelligent....i'm sure he's delighted that you see such a bright future ahead of him...

[Larsberry]

Hey Omair - great piece.

Really sweet film.

Great sound design and wonderful creativity.

Good one.

I don't know why so many people are getting upset that this is not Dubai Commercial of people playing on the beach...very strange...I think you did a wonderful job capturing the ethnography of Dubai. Very nice indeed.

[jeeperscreepers0071]

very good propaganda video. who ever made this managed to show dubai in a negative way successfully. this documentary guy must have got a Ph,d in propaganda

[legalfreak]

this documentry is good! But needs some music to it!!

[harhainen]

pretty boring documentary.. :O

[omairways]

hmm. needs Michael Moore

[NodrogTrax]

@omairways In documentaries you can take a small view or a large view. You can focus on epic or tragedy. In my opinion either can be done effectively and credibly. This is a pure and well paced documentary about human reality in a large system, from which we extrapolate their truth. It lends to curiosity for the audience to want to know why such dysfunction occurs, because it makes one want for context. Michael Moore is an infotainer, a weak peddler of a shallow middle ground.

[00samir00]

Isn't there a site were I could find a job in sales in dubai? I would love to go back!!

If someone could help it would be greate.

Thanks

[Clausewitzz]

Dubai seems te be missing culture... i cant see any culture of their own, only the great mix of all kinds.

[proudindian27]

AWESOME!!!! 5 STARS

[reemirror]

i only wish - wait! before i wish, you tell me why: why haven't you included interviews with emiratis & other ethnicites? another aspect of dubai, which is interconnected to the factors mentioned in your film, is it's population/society diversity..

[nazdxb]

This is a very exagerated biased documentary. You cannot say that all the arabs or local people from Dubai do not work and are just rich. The documentary contradicts itself. It says that Dubai doesnt have oil yet there people are rich but dont work. How is that possible? You cannot base the opinions of 3 or 4 people to judge the whole city, even though its obvious the guys have been told what to say. Just curious why hasnt the documentary interviewed a single local?

[barkatullay]

you are right. emiratis can be hard working and good businessmen. i didnt say that the emiratis dont work... this is what the indian/pakistani workers say.

if there was more interaction between races, maybe people wouldnt make up things about the other.

i didnt want to make them look bad, just wanted to show what these outsiders, are saying (out of envy or frustration). notice there are no white expats in the film either. or women.

more comments are welcome

[ButherLi55ett]

1At the top of the social pyramid, of course, are the al-Maktoums and their cousins who own every lucrative grain of sand in the sheikhdom. Next, the native 15 per cent of the population (many of them originally Arab-speakers from southern Iran) constitutes a leisure class whose uniform of privilege is the traditional white dishdash. Their obedience to the dynasty is rewarded by income transfers, free education, subsidized homes and government jobs.

[ButherLi55ett]

2.A step below are the pampered mercenaries: more than 100,000 British expatriates (another 100,000 UK citizens own second homes or condos in Dubai), along with other European, Lebanese, Iranian and Indian managers and professionals, who take full advantage of their air-conditioned affluence and two months of overseas leave every summer.

MIKE DAVIS - FEAR AND MONEY IN DUBAI

[ButherLi55ett]

Because they would all be apologetics of the regime? Even some workers are thanking the regime for jobs for fuck sake man! A true sign of totalitarianism and the depravity of their condition(s). Your cynicism about the workers being told what to say is laughable is it really because deep down you realise that the whole situation is completely fucked up and can't handle it? Most rich people inherit their money, land and property by the way.

[crazywaters]

Dubai is going the Manhatan of Middle East. Arabs are very ambitious people and they do have goals and dreams, but lost the essence because of their over-the-top approach. In other documentaries some Arabs hate the western people and their way of life, yet they try to do anything to live by it. I see Dubai as a cultural experiment with an expiration date. During the little time I spent there I saw that superficiality.

[barkatullay]

who are western people?

[MattyTheMole]

@crazywaters Middle Eastern people are influenced by Western Culture which does not only include the United States.

[AKHIDAH]

LOL

[fineliving88]

how can we scold dubai for having everything us Americans really want. No dangeroux bronx, no black ppl, beautiful buildings, beautiful malls, big roads and nice cars...

[MissSanneh]

u r offensive, nasty, ignorant and I will keep u in my prayers!

[barkatullay]

did you get beat up in the dangerous bronx by black people?

[noahisthemanyamean]

just bums hating cause they cant have it ,.. for real .. you should come to the USA and check out the plight of undocumented aliens form mexico and see how there treated watch FAST FOOD NATION...

[thetrickman]

Ek din hum Desi yeh Dubai ko Take over kar lenge . yeh sale jo hum log ko aaj gali dete hain, woh humare nokur honge.

[daddo10]

I've watched all the documentary, and it's simply brilliant! Good job, and I hope you will broadcast it on TV! People should open their eyes!

[stickhrk]

ha ha the criminals never get caught cause the catchers are criminals too, thats classic

[smartoez]

brilliantly done!

[pborty]

Brilliant doc. Hopefully this tells the truth. I have wanted to know the real Dubai for a while. The audio could have been better but well done Omair. A revealing documentary.

[samonitus]

Money rules, Dubai forever!!!

[ArchitectAt]

I didn't see tha last part because I got emotional !

but it's reallly well done ...

[meekhon]

Brilliant - encompasses Dubai so well. I have just lived here for a year and it does become a long procession of visiting one AC building to the another. The place is very impressive and is extraordinary achievement, but is has no soul and noone really feels like they belong here or have any real attachment to the place.

[nanohurtz]

I'm sure this same type of video would have been produced if handy cams were available during the construction of Egypt, the Roman Empire, Babylon, and New York City. If you really want to depress people, do a documentary on the high rise workers themselves. It still won't change my desires to live in a city that fosters advancement and international community

[shida787]

in reality arabs have a severe inferiority complex, they pretend to be proud. When persians and indian subcontinet was a civilization they were drinking dirty water and living in filthy conditions.

[hassanmroue]

I admire ur work omair. Think u are very talented and wish u all the best in ur future documentaries to come.

Keep it up dude

[rehan8649]

wow! excellent quality bro and really shows another side of dubai.

the security guard is very interesting and a seems like a very good guy at heart. amazing bro 5 stars

[umealvi]

Well Done Omair! its true that these Arabs are rich and proudly. But pakistani's and Indians and other labourers that came to build Dubai when it was just Desert should be privelged and rewarded.However in this big bad world this is not the case in today's society.

[barkatullay]

hmm interesting. its that old argument... the circle. the workers are rewarded with wages. if the rich arabs werent rich, the indopaks wouldnt have jobs. if the workers didnt work, the arabs wouldnt stay rich. i dont know

[ButherLi55ett]

Workers are forced to sell their labour time to exist, the vast majority of wealth, land and property is inherited. Works are not rewarded with ANYTHING. They work for their subsistence and all the rest is stolen by the bosses. You are right about one thing though. 'i don't know'.

[eliskander]

Awsome, well done. Tells alot of truth even though some Arabs may not like it, but the gulf is full of decadence and corruption..., reminds one of acient Rome with a Quranic twist.

[jioklp]

gr8 work !

[orpheustansen]

WOW! Good job Omair!

[dubaimisfit]

What are you taking pictures?

This is desert... emotional desert.

Yet so many intelligent, thoughtful and true people.

A bit of chaos in the editing (after watching all 3 parts) but helps to get the right emotions, slow motions, fast motions...

Amazing is not the word. I stay in Qusais. In three months that I've been here, three new buildings just rose in front of my window...

I have so much sympathy for these poeple... let's do another one. I got an idea if you're interested.

[avocadogreen]

I'm only 18, but im planning to buy a camera for myself and do exactly this.. not 'copy' your work of course, not at all! but come up with some 'realistic' documentaries of my own. I'd wish you'd make more documentaries like this... and these videos actually deserve more credit than where it is at now[it's the best one director's docmentary i've seen on youtube]... you need to put it out there more somehow, im sure you'd get a lottt of views and 'fans' for this lol. Keep up the talent :)

[avocadogreen]

I loved the ending lol, it's kind of funny because I've seen this before, but failed to see this one last bit for some reason :/ . Inspiring documentaries, I was very moved by your videos... living in dubai all my life, I can see a lot of 'truths' that you have portrayed in all of them. You are Really talented, flawless videos.. you've got an Artist's eye[and rarely do I ever come across something like this 'unique' 'poetic realism'].

[omairways]

bigup to you! and respect... God bless

[avocadogreen]

thanks :)

[MattyTheMole]

@avocadogreen Lol The man at the end who say "If you have no money you can go fuck yourself", hahahaha. Sounds so much like America...

[souq]

very good doc. lived there for 18 years and watched it turn into the place it is now. wish it stuck to beach center and hilton beach club (not even that, ruined a brilliant surf spot).

[araborigine]

Brilliant documentary. I agree with Haluk - the security guard was impressive. I'd grant him a PhD if I was Oxford. I gave the documentary 4 stars (although it actually deserved 5) because as a UAE national, I took slight offence to what was said about Arabs not working and only spending money. That is so not true!

Good job, Omair. Now I want to work with you on a documentary!

[omairways]

there is an overwhelming notion, (be it racist/offensive/or whatever) of the Indo/Pak workers is that the Arabs don't do work, because they are all rich and just have spare time and money. I am not saying it is true by putting it in the documentary, I am just letting a Pakistani taxi driver say what he thinks. It highlights things like Pakistani envy of the Arabs, strange myths people create about this mysterious natives who are a minority in Dubai.

[Haluk10]

The security guard in the mall is really interesting, and quite brave to agree to the interview. I wonder if he is gonna get fired...

[Annick9]

I love it. It is very good work. Keep on doing that.

[littlejimmyboro]

Absolutely superb. A really though-provoking piece that deserves a wider audience.

[avocadogreen]

makes me wonder, how come it's not???? somebody gotta do something about this lol!

[KennyUSA]

Heh "Also starring Toyota Land Cruiser", how funny. Amazing that he had time to appear in your movie. It seems as if he's always up my rear flashing me with his head lights on Emirates Road...

[kabourmi85]

Terrific editing,keep it up!

[zyrexoid]

The mall security guard was very interesting. He must be a cool guy to hang out with. I bet he is a poet at heart.

P.S. You should get a director's account, and post the documentary as a whole.

[merriest]

You there stop taking pictures of the desert!! Joking aside its a great insight to Dubai. I shall be moving there in 5 weeks and I'm both excited and aprehensive!

[kakapi]

Excellent, Great, two side opinions and very good quality video, very useful video in YouTube first time, keep post more.

[omairways]

thanks! i just finished this film, rate it pls...