I don't usually review movies but this was just a disaster. I genuinely thought it would be a nice European Christmas movie with an Indian character, the idea seemed so exciting as an Indian who lives in the west and enjoys the Christmas time. This however turned out to be a complete disappointment. As if we as Indians abroad are not already burdened by all the stereotyping, this just added to that and sought to leverage it for comedizing. Jashan's character is an embarrassment to every Indian. It's not that hard to appreciate the culture of others as the movie makes it seem, his girlfriend is very patient irl she would've dumped him immediately and nobody would've blamed her. I get that her family wasn't perfect either (racist too at times) but at least they tried to be accepting. How would an Indian family feel if a Norwegian girl tried to overrule Diwali albeit not intentionally. It's not even like in the movie she's not telling him that he is messing things up but he goes on to do dumb stuff over and over again. I'm sorry but I felt nothing but embarrassment from this. There was so much potential from the cast and the setting, locations, and cultural factors but no the writer decided to cherrypick the most bizarre things that could be found and put them on display. I am giving 3 stars for the Norwegian landscape. Just a big missed oppurtunity. Please don't make such movies, we already are stereotyped enough.
Review of Christmas as Usual
