Shilpa Shetty: A total embarrassment for the Indian community in UK?

Gordon Brown may be sympathetic towards Shilpa Shetty but it seems that some Indians are extremely unhappy about the Big Brother matter. I found two news items in which writers have bitterly attacked Shilpa Shetty about the way she handled Jade Goody episode in Big Brother UK.

Balaji Reddy wrote:

Shipla failed to carry herself. Before coming to a country like UK, first you must learn to avoid ‘ditches’ that can create problem for you. Shilpa, an immature Indian Bollywood woman fell in it and called fowl for help. NRI expatriates in the Western nations understood how naive and immature these women are in India especially in Bollywood .

If you carry yourself with dignity and recognize problem areas, you can avoid trouble. Shilpa now is a total embarrassment for the Indian community in UK. She should go back to India’s Bollywood and never return back to UK. It is a lesson for Indian Bollywood ‘dancing around the trees’ heroes and heroines too – life in West is real. You will be attacked if you try to excel. If you cannot take it, do not bother coming in the West. Stay in Mumbai and keep dancing and singing around the trees.

Sharp reaction- isn’t it? Well, I feel sympathetic towards Balaji. After all, Shilpa is going to come back to Bollywood and get heroic welcome. However, thousands of Indians will have to stay in UK and suffer the torment that Indians are cry babies.

Then, Sonia Chopra wrote:

Why Shilpa went to UK? Why she has to make a big roar. Why these Bollywood jokers cannot preserve their own culture? Why can India cinema go beyond the medieval age ‘dancing and singing’? Why are girls in Bollywood called item numbers?

The fact is Indians who live in India unlike the Chinese and Japanese have become less nationalistic. They are greedy and like make it quick without sacrificing much.

Talk to an expatriate India living in America (in India they call NRI- non Resident Indian). Ask these person what he had to go through to establish himself or herself in the West. In India people think NRI means easy money. It is not. Life is tougher for Indians in the West that Indians in India.

Shilpa should have thought several times before going to UK. What she went through, every expatriate Indian goes through in the Western nation. But you have to shrewd. Take it in the chin and move on – not make a big hoopla about it.

Some serious question? I wonder what Shilpa and her friends have to say about that. I surely would like to see that this debate goes on for the time being.