There’s something face-palmingly awful about the signature item number from the Akshay Kumar-starrer B.O.S.S. In the segment, Kumar tries very hard to imitate M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” video.
The offending item number:
And M.I.A.’s dash-bangingly brilliant “Bad Girls”:
Sure, she might be guilty of occasional Orientalism, but you simply don’t mess with Mathangi.
(h/t to Aarti Virani)
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The Bollywood one has white girls dancing in it. So typical of Bollywood.