Myers’ Indian schtick not as bad as feared

So Mike Myers didn’t go with the Apu accent in the end for his Guru Pitka character in The Love Guru. Wondrous! Now maybe some of our esteemed desi American comedians could learn from him.

Pitka contorts himself to the catchy opening strains of ‘Dhadak Dhadak‘ from Bunty Aur Babli (thanks, Pooja and Rahul). It isn’t very funny though, even with Manu Narayan (Bombay Dreams), John Oliver (Daily Show) and Justin Timberlake (’Dick in a Box‘) channeling Rob Schneider. Seriously, when you’re reduced to impersonating Deuce Bigalow, you’re either doing a really meta joke or you need a new day job.

(thanks, Bobby)

manish on Friday, February 29th, 2008, 2:51 pm in Film, Video clips › Email this › Facebook this › Reddit this › Link › Reader links

1Pooja on February 29th, 2008, 2:58 pm › Link

Dhadak Dhadak, Bunty aur Babli (2005).

2Rahul on February 29th, 2008, 3:08 pm › Link

Can anyone ID the Bollywood song here, ‘Dhinak dhin dhin dhin dha’?

Small town boy thinks big.

3rohin on February 29th, 2008, 4:41 pm › Link

Ye had little faith in Myers Manish. You thought he was gonna be Apu-in’ his way through his lines. Not so!

Although it does kind of look like an Austin Powers-Jimi Mistry rehash.

4manish on February 29th, 2008, 4:46 pm › Link

Ye had little faith in Myers

I was doubtful but open to it:

The key, of course, is whether he gets the accent right without devolving into crude Apu-ism. The accent has proven very resistant to native English speakers because of missing phonemes, incompetence and a racist lack of interest in getting it even close to being right. Myers or Dana Carvey might be talented enough to pull it off. [Link]

In the end he punted on the problem. His version is very soft, and he’s not trying to get it right (and not mangling it either).

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Myers’ Indian schtick not as bad as feared

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