A few days ago, a tweet by American writer Kevin Fyugen went viral:
Asian Get Out is about an Asian guy and he’s in a room where people ask him to set up their printer for nine hours
— Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) March 5, 2018
This prompted a response from desis on what a more South Asian version of Get Out would look like.
Writer of The Boy With the Top Knot Sathnam Sanghera made this observation:
The sequel to Asian Get Out is a dude being repeatedly asked if he knows Harbinder, cos he runs a newsagent around the corner, and he is nice and all Asians are related obviously - and then, annoyingly, realising you are actually related https://t.co/ZfozauPiWH
— Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) March 6, 2018
Others jumped in with their own version
Asian Get Out is missing one call from your parents who then shout at you for not calling/they could have been murdered by serial killers for all you care and then you hear a knock at the door. Oh, it's just your aunt wanting her Tupperware back.
— Poorna Bell (@poornabell) March 6, 2018
the ultimate Asian horror movie can't be made cos it happens daily: a bunch of aunties at a wedding asking you why you haven't got married yet
— Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) March 6, 2018
#AsianGetOut is where your mum is yelling the keys are in the dubba next to the dhal, but you don't know which one because nothing is labelled and everything looks and smells the same.
— Anisa Subedar (@TheAnisaSubedar) March 6, 2018
Then it escalates as to how no one will ever marry you.
Asian Get Out is the rest of your life of having relatives relay their physical symptoms, then asking you to diagnose them. Not because you’re a doctor, but because you know how to use google. Then having your sister jokingly call you GP Burns....when really you are a teacher.
— Usha Kumari-Burns (@MarushkaBaby) March 6, 2018
Even the actor Sanjeev Bhaskar could not resist joining in.
The sequel to the sequel of Asian Get Out is a story of an Asian kid who comes home to tell his parents he got a ‘B’ in his science test. All hell breaks loose. https://t.co/m2MbBf3Ld4
— Sanjeev Bhaskar (@TVSanjeev) March 6, 2018
Now, who is going to put some money down and make a movie out of these great ideas?!
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