Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’

NEW YORK—Arguing that producers should consider their audience before catering to the whims of the “woke internet mob,” Fox News host Jesse Watters decried Tuesday the casting of an Indian man in the lead role of the film Sankranthiki Vasthunam. “I don’t know about you, but I like my Tollywood films all-American,” said a visibly agitated Watters, claiming that DEI had ruined the Telugu-language action-comedy film that made waves this year in India’s second-largest film market. “Why cast Daggubati Venkatesh when we all know they could’ve just as easily gone with Chris Pratt? The role of Yadagari Damodara Raju has always been a white man, as far as I’m concerned. And we all know Pratt has the chops to carry both the wild Tollywood action sequences and Raju’s lively banter with his ex-girlfriend Meenakshi, who, for the record, should’ve been played by Scarlett Johansson. So unless every white actor from Hollywood to Hyderabad turned the role down, I don’t see any reason why they needed to virtue signal with an Indian guy no one has heard of except for fans of Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan and Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu.” Watters went on to state that the makers of 2025’s highest-grossing Telugu film would pay for their “woke stunt” at the box office.