Priyanka Chopra’s Quantico is anyway getting cancelled soon, however, before going, it has definitely managed to rub the Indian audience of it the wrong way with its latest episode.
In episode 5 of season 3 of ABC’s Quantico, the story for it read something like:
“When a physics professor at a major US university steals weaponised uranium, the team scrambles to find the professor and the missing uranium before it can be used against an important international summit meeting in New York City.”
However, it all went viral when Indian Twitter users started in outrage over the inclusion of ‘Indian nationalists’ (a term they used), who apparently tried to blow up Manhattan to try and frame Pakistan for it in a nuclear attack.
While Quantico has never been the best written show out there and has had been largely in the news mainly due to the mega-stardom of its lead Priyanka Chopra, it was still not exactly a bad show overall.
However, this loose and sloppily written episode is just more hilarious than anything.
Twitterati Lose Their Cool
One user @ask0704 apparently first noticed the weirdness in the plotline when he tweeted this on 3rd June
After that, a number of other Indian Twitter users too came forward to put forward their dissatisfaction with the episode with some ridiculing the storyline and some calling out Chopra for agreeing to such an episode being an Indian herself.
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What Exactly Was The Writer Thinking?
I would really like to ask the writer Adam Armus if he even knows the volatile and long history that Pakistan and India share.
Does he genuinely have any idea as to what the situation is really like between the two countries or did he just write this out to capitalize on the sensationally fraught relationship that we share with our neighbouring country?
Also, I don’t agree with those bashing Priyanka Chopra for this, because at the end of the day, she is just an actor and has to do what the director has told her to.
We had some more opinions on this episode:
This seems to be another case of just immature and naïve writing as from a western’s point of view without really knowing the ground reality.
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Sources: DNA India, IBTimes India
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‘I don’t agree with those bashing Priyanka Chopra for this, because at the end of the day, she is just an actor and has to do what the director has told her to.’
I differ. I say that ‘Quantico’ has made it to its third season due to the Priyanka effect. An actor who commands around 10 million dollars per season is no puppet and she ought to have some influence in how the story-line and script can negatively portray her own country. Some tweaks in the script could have been possible and if Priyanka didn’t attempt to do so then I fault her as well. Meanwhile her silence is deafening.