 So did you see the news about you didn't about there's been a lot of news Johnny Dapp will direct his first director effort in 25 years He's gonna direct it in 25 years from now his first directorial film in since in 25 since 25 years ago titled Modi it got you didn't it it's about like a Italian artist It Like and he's playing Modi Hey, welcome back to her see what ranks is up Corbyn. I'm Johnny Dapp falls in Instagram Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks for watching guns row like button So like the the the the first line of the the headline got me. I said Johnny Dapp will direct Modi It's first director effort in 25 years the biopic of Italian artist I can't say that name Medio the meddes will be led by Italian star got it Ricardo Scarmaccio Pierre Nini and a Lesser known actor by the name of Al Pacino. They're good friends. Yeah, I've been for a long time But yeah, I saw it. I was like he's doing what and was it spelled M. O. D. I'm okay Johnny Dapp is Modi Oh my god, I got was like that's what is happening. That's so funny. Anyways, that's not what this video is about at all I just thought it was hilarious. I agree today. So this video is actually really interesting It's called. Why is Bollywood obsessed with white dancers? Good question? Good question. I would like to know there seems to have been a Bucking of that trend in recent years. Thank God, but for decades There were too many white people Maybe it's because the white man suppressed them and put them on the back burner for so long Indians wanted to put white people on the back burner in the background. Maybe so maybe could be Sit back there colonizer exactly So this video is gonna go into a little depth of why where you know what? I was wondering during the coronation ceremony, which I didn't watch it Just saw pictures of it and I saw the song that was being sung Gross you heard about what it sounds like they're singing. Oh, yeah But I was watching the pictures and the different videos that were on the news in different places and all I could think to myself Was how many of those jewels came from India? Well the one in the crown. I I know the crown. I know here we go Yes It makes sense when you're doing a scene in New York or England You Are my son, yeah, that's genie. Okay, so she now runs an animal center in Goa, but 20 or years ago Oh, it's great entertainment and casting agency in London and that's when she met Bollywood producer So rose that you are up We did he was me he was really the first person wanted to have Western women in his movies And it was a different reason for context This is the same guy who has produced films like for here are very welcome and a water bugger Okay, we wanted women that would be willing to wear less clothes and kind of be the sit-down Interesting Western culture trying to paint their culture in other words the white women were willing to be more slutty Around that the Indian actually didn't want to do sounds I've never thought of that The Western vamp in Bollywood is a running archetype that originated in the 1950s The idea was simple Indian women heroines had to uphold our great Indian sanskar And so we used lose Western women to play the evil seductress on skit But here's how that changed to featuring groups of Western dancers in songs So I did quite a few films with furrows They're all quite small things and then after I did the awards ceremony and we did cabi cushy That's when things changed because yeah, she didn't want just particular looking girls He wanted a whole mix. He wanted it to be like because it was a university So he wanted people that were you know black white red head blonde all different shapes and sizes So that was quite refreshing the cabi kushi genie is referring to his current Joe has 2001 blockbuster film It was set in India and the UK 3KG was one of a slate of big budget 3KG No, 3KG Cursing on stories of NRIs With cabi kushi, cabi gam, Karan and Yash Johar went out of their way There's 3Ks to add up the scale and glamour quotient of the NRI film One of the greatest soundtracks in all of Bollywood He said look if I'm shooting this, if I'm making this movie that is supposed to be based out of London College then I can't have Indian dancers there So hence he then got these dancers Right, there's many times that happens It's in London or New York That makes more sense Now a leading wedding planner and previously an ad executive for over a decade who has been working with white performers since the trend began And I think for them onwards it created a trend of getting an international dancers to make the background look beautiful, to make the picture song look really sexy to make the whole environment look a notch higher I mean Gora skin always works in these kind of surround exist So unfortunately I think that's how it is Aditya Bluntly states the philosophy of much of the ad in entertainment world back then And even today, though conversations about representation, beauty norms and colourism have become more mainstream Our old ideas of Gora skin being equal to glam remain strong I think originally when we first got the request to come through in the late 1990s and 2000s Western artists were exotic and for a national audience in India they probably hadn't been exposed to western types of dancing They were fresh talents to expose to an audience of millions and millions in India For the NRIs or the Indian diaspora living in other areas of the world it was probably enjoyable for them to see other countries reflected in these films to feel that they can still stay connected to India No matter that these people are going out to Switzerland, UK, America, Spain All these wonderful countries Upon release when K3G became one of the biggest domestic hits in India and number three at the global box office in the UK Success and success in featuring white dancers would become a staple not just in big budget Bollywood songs but also beyond After K3G it became a big trend I still use the foreign dancers and the Indian dancers' fuses together They look really beautiful There was Mahalagala, there was Johnny Gaddaar also where I wanted to infuse our dancers Ads have shot a lot with a lot of international dancers the British dancers where there was a tea bag ad I remember there was a DOI What really motivated British dancers to travel across the world to perform in India Hi, my name is Guntha Smith My role in I did two films in Bollywood which one was Kabakushi Kabikan and the other one was Kalwanao Pay wasn't anywhere to what we would have got paid in England but it's all about the experience You get to see a different country and you get to travel and sometimes you take less payment to experience that I was smiling just thinking about it In fact most dancers didn't seem to know much about Bollywood before they came here All I knew that it was very extravagant compared to kind of like here in the UK lots of colours, lots of dancers everyone very happy, everyone you know the moves, everything all in unison For most young British dancers like Guntha and Clinton it was about the experience of coming to India getting to be in a Bollywood film sometimes clubbing the shoot with a trip to the Taj Mahal They made the most of being here and had a blast on shoot Others, especially women, it could seem like a big career move As I was at university studying performing arts I was studying dance, drama, music and started doing castings and auditions and this casting came up for a part in a Bollywood movie and I just thought this is it, this is my chance to get out to India That's Anna Edwards, a British model, performer and actress who auditioned for her first Bollywood movie role about 20 years ago She wasn't sure whether she was cast as a dancer or an actor back then and her experiences highlight the absurdity of the industry trend The director comes up and tells me that I'm shooting with this snake and I was like okay and then this basket gets carried over to where I am on set and I was hardly wearing anything I was kind of wearing like a bikini sort of thing because they were going to wrap me in purple and red silks and then on comes this guy with his snake in his basket and he takes the lid off the basket and it was a stick I was going to say it looks like a python The body of it was... The head looks like a python Is this for real? They genuinely wanted me to lie on the floor That's usually said in the casting notes And I still didn't actually understand what the scene was and I can remember just looking at the director and saying oh my god can I just have a minute to get used to what's going on here and he was like we don't have a minute Anna Get on with it The stereotypes about western women that Bollywood have been perpetuating over the decades translated into western women's treatment of screen recording We just watched it We just watched it and commented on All the Way Women Because at the time it wasn't very common for western girls to go and work in India I found that there was a false perception of western girls From seeing what we saw Western people I would say we have western dancers and you would have them clothed in the smaller things So the girls would be in a cabi-douche They were in a little bra top and short skirts and things like that But the Hindi dancers were so poor You didn't have that So there was that element to it Where western dancers were allowed to put them in this But you know They weren't allowed to be put in this I kind of got that because religions and that kind of thing But why is it acceptable to put that onto another nation onto somebody that's not from my Yes we had to put up with some challenging behaviour from male dominated industry But we broke the ice and that's how I see it K3G clearly made it cool to feature western dancers in films But there were other factors that pushed the trend to feature white dancers in particular For one Non-stop they were using the foreign dancers and that time she started with London British dancers Then other countries came in Australian dancers Especially Russia, Ukraine and everything mixed and matched And there were other things started opening They started using them commercially for their corporate, for birthday parties and everything So it became weird suddenly The market has become the people They started opening the business that way Once this trend began to pick up Producers and agencies started realising that hiring from eastern European countries with weaker currencies made more sense Since they could be paid lower wages and were more willing to relocate to and work out of India I just think the kind of people that started to be booked They weren't trained dancers They didn't have any skill sets They were quite happy to work longer hours for less money So it made it more difficult for us to hire dancers It's not such a novelty for them to come over anymore They've been before They know that the money is not good in the hours along They've already ticked off their list So it became harder and harder to find people that wanted to come The Yash Raj film, Joom Barabor Joom was Jeanie's last gig After which the changing economics of the business made her leave this industry and show business far behind But the trend still lives on Even as Bollywood itself changes form with the rise of the Pan India blockbuster Dance halls around the country continue to feature white background dancers This was supposed to be in London This night club scene But we shot it here Oh my God I haven't seen this for ages I'm going to have this in my head I don't know This song got used over and over again for other things as well It makes a lot of sense Actually, now that I think about it is the wanting scandalous dancing and scandalous women to wear scandalous clothing but not want to taint the Indian culture with having Indian women in it It makes absolute sense in that regard The other thing that they didn't cover that I'm guessing it was intentional I don't know When was this video made? Two months ago Without question And we know this by reason of those we've talked to over the years videos we've seen about this particular topic specifically about agencies and the film industry a huge reason that they didn't talk about and I don't know where it would stand as far as the larger reason but it's a big one was they have white skin There's a reason that there has been the predominance of lightening creams and the ill treatment of particularly women who have dark skin and using white girls propagates and perpetuates this fake ideal that you're more beautiful the whiter you are I wish they had talked about that because not talking about that seems particularly disingenuous It's really interesting One made video though by the way Very well done I just wish they had covered that reality because it is very much a dark underbelly and if you're going to tell why Bollywood is obsessed with white dancers you've got to be honest about the good reasons as well as the really bad reasons and they left out the bad reasons The channel is the swaddle The swaddle Did they create the video or just publish the video? I believe it's their video Really cool to see some of the dancers that were involved then and to hear some of the input and all of that makes so much sense They probably hire white actors the exact same way which is why they're terrible The great white goat Mark Bennington It's true but the reason that the goat is working so consistently is because Mark lives in India It's much much easier to have him work because you don't have to fly him in from the United States or from London and he's already living within a context where he understands the pay rate What's this? We need to portray a white man It says we need to portray a white man and every frame is Mark Bennington He's a great guy and he has a great book by the way if you don't know that look it up Mark has a really great book If you only have one good white actor why not use him over? He has said because I've talked to him about many things and one of those things is many different times talked with Andrani about what would life look like if we lived in India or at least had a home there and a home here and Mark's reply to me was you'd work all the time bud as we know a huge lack of talented actors and the big reason for that is how much it fricking costs even when you do something which you have to do for most projects in India when you have to do something for sag actors like we are and you do it under what's called the one rule it's an allowance for a film that's out of sag jurisdiction to use a sag actor it's used frequently for international films however there's still going to come an expectation for the compensation to be commiserate to what you would make at basic scale which is going to be way beyond what you'd pay an actor to do that role if you hired them in India and plus flying and accommodations basically why if you live there you basically will give up your sag that's what Mark did Mark's not sag anymore but he makes a good living over there absolutely he does he's working all the time he teaches acting classes good for him anyways a good video let us know what you thought about the video and any other videos we can react to down below