Star Wars: The Force Awakens is releasing in India on Christmas day, and the nation will finally catch up with the global mania that has afflicted the world for the past several weeks.
José Covaco, MTV veejay and stand-up comic, has decides that Star Wars is totally Indian. The first episode of his web-based show brings you a local version of the light saber duel. It is set to a dandiya soundtrack, fittingly.
The second episode features the celebrated Indian contribution to entrepreneurship: jugaad.
What if Darth Vader were at the other end of the line? Here is what José thinks will happen.
Is Jazbaa’s Aishwarya Rai Bachchan chasing a vehicle carrying her kidnapped daughter or is she trying to flag down an auto rickshaw in Mumbai? José had brilliantly skewered a sequence from the courtoom drama in the recent past, and he uses the same trick in his Star Wars send-up. Can The Force help you find an auto in Mumbai, especially to go to the traffic-plagued suburb Andheri?
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