The newest episode of The Kardashians Season 6 adopted Kim and Khloe Kardashian on their whirlwind journey to Mumbai for Anant Ambani and Radhika Service provider’s wedding ceremony. Whereas the sisters made time for sightseeing, together with a go to to an ashram with Jay Shetty there was one explicit second left followers each amused and baffled: the Calabasas Queens’ expectations of Mumbai’s Colaba market. “We’re solely right here for 48 hours, and we do have a schedule,” Khloe defined in a confessional. “We’re planning to go to a few of the native markets earlier than we now have to go to the marriage so we are able to get pleasure from as a lot of India as attainable.”
Nonetheless, their expectations didn’t fairly match actuality. Kim admitted she thought {the marketplace} would look extra like one thing out of the 1992 Disney basic Aladdin — which is ready within the fictional Center Japanese metropolis of Agrabah, not India. “I assumed it was going to be like {the marketplace},” stated Kim, fairly severely. “That is just like the streets.” She went on to make clear her imaginative and prescient: “What you see Aladdin going by way of and stealing some bread from. That is the place I assumed we had been going.”
The Skims co-founder, clearly overwhelmed by the bustling scene, was startled by all the pieces from the honking visitors to a stray canine crossing her path. “Oh! I don’t do random canines!” she exclaimed, which prompted Khloe to say, “Not less than there’s a Starbucks right here.” In a confessional, Khloe summed up their expertise with fun: “We’re not in Calabasas anymore.” She added, “There’s rickshaws going by, everybody was so shocked, like: ‘What the f*** are these individuals doing right here?’”
Netizens react
The web couldn’t fairly wrap its head round how two ultra-rich, ultra-connected celebrities — with a whole workforce at their disposal — in some way did not do a fundamental Google search earlier than touchdown in Mumbai. “Kim Kardashian strolling round Colaba Causeway in Mumbai, wanting disenchanted as a result of she thought the markets can be like Aladdin, is precisely why America wants a greater training system,” was one touch upon X. One other touch upon Reddit learn, “Maybe probably the most vapid take she’s ever had and lbr that’s saying one thing.”
Another remark requested, “Does…does she know the town in Aladdin will not be an actual place?” Others selected a special route, selecting to consider that it was all scripted saying, “I am gonna faux this was scripted and never that she thinks the Center East and India are the identical. Sure I do know there are folks that suppose that however I am selecting to consider it as a result of in any other case I am gonna hand over on humanity.”
that kardashian video on insta about mumbai is borderline racist
— snigdhaaaaaaa. (@kidcudiee) March 15, 2025
Finally, Kim and Khloe’s journey to Mumbai left the web buzzing — not nearly their high-profile go to however about their wildly off-base expectations. Whereas their lack of analysis and Aladdin-inspired assumptions had netizens rolling their eyes, we are able to at all times belief the Kardashians to remind us why individuals on actuality TV should not be trusted.
