Dame Meera Syal: Goodness Gracious Me 'took ownership' of Indian representation

Dame Meera Syal: Goodness Gracious Me ‘took ownership’ of Indian representation - The actress rose to prominence as part of ...

'We were making the jokes this time' - Meera Syal on why BBC Goodness Gracious Me broke barriers

Dame Meera Syal said the show was born out of a desire to 'take ownership’ of Indian representation ...
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'We'd been shown with blackface, head-waggling and the terrible accent, and we wanted to own that and turn it upside-down'

Otherwise we were all responding or reacting to something, but we owned this.’ Syal agreed: ‘We've seen ourselves represented in so many bad ways, literally with blackface and the head waggling and ...