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7. Peter Sellers in The Party

In 1968 Peter Sellers played Indian Hrundi V. Bakshi in the slapstick film The Party. The film was a comedy about the Indian character making mistakes based on his ignorance of American ways while at a Hollywood dinner party. The late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a fan of one the lines in the film: “In India we don’t think who we are, we know who we are!” Although Sellers performing in brownface wasn’t considered particularly scandalous back then, it is rather inappropriate by today’s sensibilities. However, he is mostly used as a foil to lampoon American culture, not mock Indians.

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