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Fisher Stevens
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Ben Jabituya
Films
"Short Circuit" (1986) is a sci-fi franchise about an experimental robot that is struck by lighting and gains human-like intelligence.
Character's Background
One of the robot's inventors is Ben Jabituya, a scientist of Indian descent.
Actor's Background
Fisher Stevens is not of Indian ancestry and essentially donned brownface for the role. For comparison, pictured above is real-life Nobel Prize-winning Indian scientist Har Gobind Khorana.
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