NEW YORKArguing 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 dont 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 Indias second-largest film market. Why cast Daggubati Venkatesh when we all know they couldve just as easily gone with Chris Pratt? The role of Yadagari Damodara Raju has always been a white man, as far as Im concerned. And we all know Pratt has the chops to carry both the wild Tollywood action sequences and Rajus lively banter with his ex-girlfriend Meenakshi, who, for the record, shouldve been played by Scarlett Johansson. So unless every white actor from Hollywood to Hyderabad turned the role down, I dont 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 2025s highest-grossing Telugu film would pay for their woke stunt at the box office.The post Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of Sankranthiki Vasthunam appeared first on The Onion.