Kim Kardashian Compares Mumbai To Aladdin’s Marketplace, Desi Fans Want To ‘Pretend This Was Scripted’
Episode of The Kardashians Season 6 followed Kim and Khloe Kardashian on their whirlwind trip to Mumbai for Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s wedding. While the sisters made time for sightseeing, including a visit to an ashram with Jay Shetty there was one particular moment left fans both amused and baffled: the Calabasas Queens’ expectations of Mumbai’s Colaba market.
Their expectations didn’t quite match reality. Kim admitted she thought the marketplace would look more like something out of the 1992 Disney classic Aladdin — which is set in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Agrabah, not India. “I thought it was going to be like the marketplace,” said Kim, rather seriously. “This is like the streets.” She went on to clarify her vision: “What you see Aladdin going through and stealing some bread from.
“Oh! I don’t do random dogs!” she exclaimed, which prompted Khloe to say, “At least there’s a Starbucks here.” In a confessional, Khloe summed up their experience with a laugh: “We’re not in Calabasas anymore.” She added, “There’s rickshaws going by, everyone was so surprised, like: ‘What the f*** are these people doing here?’”
“Kim Kardashian walking around Colaba Causeway in Mumbai, looking disappointed because she thought the markets would be like Aladdin, is exactly why America needs a better education system,” was one comment on X. One more comment asked, “Does…does she know the city in Aladdin is not a real place?” Others chose a different route, choosing to believe that it was all scripted saying, “I’m gonna pretend this was scripted and not that she thinks the Middle East and India are the same.
Kim and Khloe’s trip to Mumbai left the internet buzzing — not just about their high-profile visit but about their wildly off-base expectations. While their lack of research and Aladdin-inspired assumptions had netizens rolling their eyes, we can always trust the Kardashians to remind us why people on reality TV shouldn’t be trusted.