Remember how Daya Ben would often start performing Garba in random situations? While the audience found that cute and hilarious, such situations in real life can be quite a nuisance. A now-viral video of a group of Indian tourists taking over local street performers in Austria and performing Garba has raised many eyebrows, with desi netizens questioning their behaviour.
Indian Tourist Group Perform Garba In Austria
A group of Indian tourists is facing backlash on Instagram after a video went viral showing them insisting that two street performers in Austria play an Indian song on their speaker so the group could perform Garba. The video was posted by Pearl Shah (@ipearlshah), who was also part of the “43 Gujarati-Marwari” people mentioned in the video.
In the video, she shared that the street performers in Austria were reluctant and initially said ‘no’ to their request. They added that they might face trouble with the police for this. However, Pearl shared, “Hum bina Garba kiye jaane wale nahi the.” (We weren’t ready to leave without doing Garba).
After a lot of insistence, they allowed the Indian tourist group to play their music and the 43 people broke into Garba on the streets of Innsbruck’s Old Town. As you can imagine, this has raised many questions about the travel etiquette of the group.
Netizens Not Impressed By The Takeover
The comments section under the video of an Indian tourist group taking over street performers in Austria has now been disabled. However, before that, hundreds of netizens commented and shared their two cents on the group’s behaviour. Most of the comments called out the group for their disrespect to the performers and unnecessary insistence on performing Garba on the streets. Many people called this entire ordeal “embarrassing”.
One of the comments read, “I am a Gujju and love garba, but I’m sorry. I just don’t get the obsession with doing it on foreign streets and being proud of something. I mean, we don’t even do that in India on a random day and random street!”
Another added, “I’m a Gujju, and you guys really need to stop this nonsense of playing garba anywhere, anytime.”
“Is this something to be proud of? They were uncomfortable, but still, you made them do this?? No wonder why Indians are not respected abroad!” one of the comments read.
“This is just embarrassing and the precise reason why Indian tourists get a bad name. Being obsessed with doing this and being forced to do this on foreign soil is just plain ridiculous. Even in India, nobody does this randomly. Please think of other Indian tourists when you do such stuff,” read one of the many comments.
We are all for letting loose and having fun while travelling. However, potentially getting someone in trouble is something that is not cool. While the performers tried pointing out how this could cause them trouble, the group’s insistence was not nice. What are your thoughts about this? Let us know in the comments.
Cover Image Courtesy: Instagram/ipearlshah
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