I'm rather bored with the idea of there being 1 way of looking at anything. I imagine polling Indians there might be a 60-40 breakdown, which way I've no idea, or asked another way, 45-30-15-10, or maybe even 1.2 billion opinions. Even the blackface bit seems a bit misleading - that color as part of a serious character performance is quite different from color to use to make a pleasant buffoon/idiot. Nevertheless, there are a lot of idiots portrayed in popular Indian film. Yeah, these are okay because it's Indians making Indians look stupid, right? their own choice? Slumdog Millionaire - British director, Indian author - received a lot of accolades and a lot of condemnation - mixed reactions even in India - what to do? how much of each makes it okay or worth banning/shunning? and what about the side scandals that display India's problems even more? One of the comments in the 1st article was re: a Southern white male trying to figure out what the uproar over shallow simplistic stereotyping was, signed by "Clevis the slack-jawed introvert" (while Tom Hanks hasn't suffered much career damage for portraying white Southerners as simpleton congenital idiots).