Time transcripts of Lainie

[00:00:00:01]	[  Interviewer  ] State your name for us please  [Interviewee] Lainie Rini

[00:00:03:27]	[ Interviewer ] And what's your story going to be about today? 

[00:00:06:16]	[ Interviewee ] The Indian culture and the movie  "The Darjeeling Limited".

[00:00:09:24]	[ Interviewer ] Go ahead whenever you're ready

[00:00:11:11]	So the movie is about these three brothers and they're all adults.

[00:00:17:19]	And they're pretty much estranged and their father recently passed away.

[00:00:21:21]	So they all came together again at his funeral. They decide that they want to see their mom

[00:00:26:19]	because she didn't come to the funeral. She lives in India as a nun.

[00:00:31:23]	So they travel to India to see her and the whole movie is their travels through the country by train

[00:00:39:02]	And they get off every so often, so they get to visit the town and see the culture in that area.

[00:00:45:06]	So it's a really cool movie because it pretty accurately shows kind of what 

[00:00:53:11]	society is like in parts of that country.

[00:00:56:23]	And it's just very cool because they show how gorgeous some of the landscape is there

[00:01:05:11]	And some of the people there; just how friendly and welcoming they can be,

[00:01:11:11]	I mean, they meet some people who, while they are on the streets, who steal from them, 

[00:01:14:23]	but it's still kind of a very cool image of the culture, which is why it was an encouraging movie

[00:01:23:13]	almost to want to learn that language and be a part of that culture

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[00:01:31:20]	[ Interviewer ] Did you further explore the language after watching this movie?

[00:01:35:19]	I did not. But there were actually after that movie, there have been a bunch of books that I read 

[00:01:42:04]	related to the Indian culture like "All the Fishes Come Home to Roost". 

[00:01:47:28]	It's about a girl living in India with her family.

[00:01:52:08]	She is living in this crazy radical religious, almost Monastery place,

[00:01:58:22]	but each time she describes her trips to actual cities, it sounds really amazing; 

[00:02:06:15]	like the food that she gest served, the different types of mannerisms that she encounters.

[00:02:10:17]	There is another book about a young Indian boy growing up in America, but his parents

[00:02:19:22]	were born in India so they are more old fashioned than he is.

[00:02:23:20]	Occassionally he describes his trips back to India 

[00:02:26:20]	and when he does, he always hates it because he's been so "Americanized".

[00:02:32:18]	But I always love reading about the culture and the types of houses that they live in.

[00:02:38:04]	 And that was also just another thing that would want to make me learn the language more;

[00:02:43:16]	to kind of understand that culture more and be able to interact with those people 

[00:02:48:16]	Because hopefully I will get to visit it someday.

[00:02:51:15]	Do you think "The Darjeeling Limited" was the first step in exploring the Indian culture more?

[00:02:57:02]	Yeah, I think so because it was the first time that I actually saw a glimpse of it.

[00:03:02:01]	And even though some of it is been almost romanticized because it's a bit of an artsy film,

[00:03:08:28]	I think that even when they show the raw moments of it like getting robbed by kids on the street

[00:03:16:14]	I don't know; just even that is part of the culture. 

[00:03:19:21]	So, yeah, the movie was the first time that I really saw anything about India

[00:03:24:22]	And I just thought that it was a really gorgeous culture and a really cool place.

[00:03:29:14]	So that was what made me want to learn it.

[00:03:34:11]	[ Interviewer ] Have the books been helpful at all in further exploring your desire in the culture?

[00:03:39:28]	They have. And I have friends too who are from India. 

[00:03:43:20]	And when I talk to them about some of the books, the other book was called "The Namesake",

[00:03:47:06]	and whenever I talk to them about that book, they actually don't like it because it doesn't 

[00:03:51:26]	accurately portray what it's like to be an Americanized Indian

[00:03:56:09]	with "old-fashioned" or parents who are immigrants,

[00:03:59:24]	but they say that it accurately displays actual India which is the part that I care the most about.

[00:04:07:22]	So, the books, even if they're not entirely accurate or whatever,

[00:04:14:09]	they still have been helpful in depicting what the culture is like.

[00:04:19:15]	[ Interviewer ] Do you have anything else that you want to share about the movie

[00:04:22:16]	or the literature, or the Indian culture?

[00:04:25:03]	[  Interviewee  ] Uhm, I think that's about it  [Interviewer] Thank you