{"id":283681,"date":"2026-02-14T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283681\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:23:07","slug":"ramayana-producer-namit-malhotra-criticises-hollywood-for-always-showing-indians-as-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283681\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramayana producer Namit Malhotra criticises Hollywood for \u2018always showing Indians as victims\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramayana: Part 1, the much-anticipated mythological drama starring Ranbir Kapoor and Sai Pallavi, is being produced by Namit Malhotra who had earlier worked in Hollywood on many films The Garfield Movie and Horizon Line. During a recent public appearance, the filmmaker criticised Hollywood for their stereotypical portrayal of Indians, and how that was the starting point for Ramayana<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an event held by ET Now, Namit Malhotra recalled his early experience in Hollywood when he felt disappointed by their overall attitude towards India. He said, \u201cI saw that we had no real presence. They didn\u2019t have any representation of our history or culture. I\u2019ve spent the last two decades really trying to establish a foothold in Hollywood, and unlike other American industries like finance and medicine, where Indians have had success, they didn&#8217;t have an appreciation for our industry, our history or culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ramayana: Part 1, the much-anticipated mythological drama starring Ranbir Kapoor and Sai Pallavi, is being produced by Namit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94008,128624,156,4223,409,118750,111,139,158286,69,158285,8034,24594],"class_list":{"0":"post-283681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ar-rahman","9":"tag-brahmastra","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-namit-malhotra","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nitesh-tiwary","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-ramayana-movie","19":"tag-ranbir-kapoor","20":"tag-sunny-deol"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}