"Ille qui nos omnes servabit"
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corek1949 — 14 years ago(January 22, 2012 03:38 AM)
It is very possible to listen to hear this babe talk without cringing. Some accents are hard to bear (New York Bronx, Newcastle upon Tyne).
Meanwhile reading the rest of the post, if she had come from America it would have been harder to explain the relationship between her and Raj, why is he from India and his sister not. And their parents still being in India. -
rjiwatra — 14 years ago(January 25, 2012 11:33 PM)
I do, and I say this as an Indian born overseas and who went to a British school. From what I've read, Aarti Mann had to use an 'Indian accent 'for the character: 'an Indian from India who LATER went to college in England for further education'. Kunal Nayyar, who plays Raj, in real life is an Indian born in India and later went to college over seas, and although Kunal says he hams up his accent a little for effect, his accent is obviously more natural sounding. Aarti on the other hand is way to ham fisted an Indian accent, it's really harsh and forced, which makes sense considering she's American born and raised so probably has an American accent. I have a mix British and American accent (went to college in LA), and if you asked me to fake an Indian accent, without any reference I'd probably ham fist it too because it's just not something I hear day to day.
Also, like how accents vary across the States, Indian English accents vary across the country of India too. The 'Apu' type accent, and the one when most westerners mock/fake the Indian accent isn't really the norm either. There are some words an Indian can't say without the ridiculous 'Apu' accent, but then there are subtle regional differences.
Anyway, whatever Aarti Mann is emulating it's just grating and annoying as hell, not only the accent (which as I've already stated sounds ham fisted) but also the deep tones she uses in her voice. Just doesn't sound natural at all, but at the risk of repeating myself, that does make sense considering she's putting on an accent that isn't hers. Not every actor is like Hugh Laurie or Yvonne Strahovski who can emulate a 'foreign' accent almost flawlessly. Then again if you look at the Indian actors on the short lived tv series, 'Outsourced', they're all either American or British born and raised and all had to fake an Indian accent for the show. Not a s16d0ingle one of them sounds as harsh and ridiculous as Aarti Mann's faux-Indian accent on The Big Bang Theory. -
jejozi — 13 years ago(September 04, 2012 06:58 PM)
Ya know what? I'll bet there's not one American watching this American show who gives a rat's a$$ as to whether her accent is "too ham fisted". It's only those with low self esteem that have to come on to a message board complaining that an accent isn't accurate. And I thought those from the UK were bad when it came to this.
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alkamal_r — 13 years ago(September 04, 2012 10:34 PM)
That was his point, he does not ham it up in real life as he has that accent already (he said he hams it up a little for the show, which Nayyar has admitted to in interviews).
Aarti Mann on the other hand hams it up completely as she normally speaks in an American, oh sorry, Pittsburgh accent in real life.
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jejozi — 13 years ago(September 05, 2012 04:59 PM)
Unless he "hammed it up" on Conan, he doesn't on TBBT. I'd watched an hour of TBBT right before he was on Conan, he sounded just the same. His body language is different, but not his accent.
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jswitte-871-211516 — 13 years ago(July 12, 2012 06:15 PM)
As for her on-screen accent, WHERE in India is the accent supposed to be, how accurate is it, and is that Aarti Mann's actual English accent? I knew a number of (college) students in the US who were born in India who did not have the kind of "throaty" a5b4ccent that Mann does on BBT (I don't know better how to describe it, and was never good at the Phonetics ling course..)
The US has different accents, and I'm assuming India does too - it is a rather big country after all.. -
Skylightmovies — 12 years ago(March 01, 2014 10:23 AM)
To OP , why?Must be something to do with your own history.
I love to hear Asian actors and actresses talk with that 'posh' Indian accent. It is quite refreshing than what I have become used to recently,which is a brown person speaking exactly like the 'english' people around them with only the colour of their skin to fill you in on their 'maybe' background.
And then there are actors like Aziz Ansari who barely have an accent..so something/one for everybody,,right?