Michael Bates was fluent in Urdu, he was also an Officer in the Gurkha Rifles. He loved India. No one could have played the part of Rangi better than him.
@TheSnowdogsShorts6 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed watching you both dance along. :)
@judgesan95426 ай бұрын
Michael Bates who plays Ranga if you didn`t know was actually born in Jhansi united provinces. 👍
@vajkosdАй бұрын
Thank you for giving this antidote to ignorance, in modern PC culture, if you are born and raised as a white person in Japan, you are 100% Japanese and any person of actual Japanese decent who doesn't think you are Japanese is Racist. And the same PC culture would say that Michael Bates would be 100% Indian if he was born and raised there, and anyone saying he's not Indian would be extremely racist. So they can't have it both ways, either he is Indian and not being racist when depicting his fellow Indians in a comedy show: Or the first generation immigrants from the common wealth to England who were born and raised there aren't actually English, which they desperately insist is the truth. Its just a bunch of stupid people with Good hearts who have very high emotion and very low intelligence, making a bunch of illogical conclusions based off their emotional reactions.
@777petew4 ай бұрын
I think it's wonderful that you see no offence towards Indian people, when everyone in the show was portrayed as an idiot. It was only ever intended to make us all laugh together. I may have said this before, but in the 1970s many Indian families gathered together to watch and laugh at the whole thing. If they were offended they would not have watched. It's always some people being offended on their behalf. That's very arrogant. Thank you for your good humour.
@MrFIZZYMann6 ай бұрын
Michael Bates was Fluent in Urdu and Hindu. He Did Not Start Learning English Until Later in His Childhood.
@leehallam93656 ай бұрын
The club is a joke on an old British phrase with an Indian twist. To put someone in the pudding club is to get them pregnant.
@johnritter6864Ай бұрын
Great show. I bought the DVD boxed set!
@colinlambert8826 ай бұрын
“He put her in the chapati club“ The English colloquial expression is “she’s in the club“ or “pudding club” meaning that she is pregnant. Possibly also an allusion to another English colloquialism “a bun in the oven“, meaning a girl is pregnant. Bun and chapati are both breads.
@777petew4 ай бұрын
All fun, fun, fun.
@billyhills99336 ай бұрын
The scene I remember with Michael Bates is the Dance of Love scene with his dancing fingers.
@janicekrieger19226 ай бұрын
It was a brilliant show. You would laugh and laugh because it was so funny.
@robgibbons46506 ай бұрын
The girl is beautiful, you lucky man❤
@andrewturton4846 ай бұрын
Like watching these, but you need to adjust the in-screen picture, so we can see the whole thing. Most of the time half of the picture is missing.
@brokengothdoll62035 ай бұрын
done for copyright purposes
@Naylte6 ай бұрын
I'd like to see your response to Ranji's attempt to explain the Nauche Dance.
@jamesohara42956 ай бұрын
Michael Bates Bio. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bates_(actor)