His wife meanwhile is slowly dominated by Cotton Mary who pretends to be totally British and uses her position as a housemaid in a British home to gain the respect of her peers. Mockery Hart said she and the Anglo-Indian community had been shocked by the film, which was released in India on 25 February. I was outraged. I could not believe what I was seeing. The whole film is pointless and makes a mockery of us and our women.
Nobody is called anything like that.
Hart, who is also a legislator in West Bengal, added that she had written to the state's culture minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya to ask that the film be banned. Similar protests have been registered by Anglo-Indian community leaders in the rest of the country. Anglo-Indians are people of mixed European and Indian parentage and have a long history of social exclusion in India. Eccentricity Merchant, who is himself Indian, has reacted to the criticism by arguing that the depiction of one character did not serve as a reflection on the entire community. There are many eccentric characters in all religions - Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and among Parsis.