The Problem With Apu (2017)
- Original title
- The Problem with Apu
- Directed by
- Michael Melamedoff
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 49 min
- Rating
- 4.8 of 10 from 49 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Comedian Hari Kondabolu examines the character Apu from The Simpsons. He looks at how this single Indian cartoon influenced stereotypes about South Asian people in America.
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What happens
The Problem with Apu is a 2017 American documentary film written by and starring comedian Hari Kondabolu and produced and directed by Michael Melamedoff. It focuses on the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, an Indian immigrant in the animated sitcom The Simpsons who, for a period, was the only figure of Indian heritage to appear regularly on mainstream American television. The film explores encounters with negative stereotypes, minstrelsy, racial microaggressions, and slurs against people of Indian and South Asian heritage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Appu and Pappu- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.