He is a outgoing, smooth-talking, and fun-loving prince who comes to the French Quarter for the Jazz scene and with whom Tiana and Charlotte fall in love, in which is accompanied by his valet Lawrence. Due to being new in the city, he is persuaded by the shady Dr. Facilier into taking a tour of his office, which results in a curse transforming him into a frog.
He is voiced by Bruno Campos. During the movie, he oftens makes exclamations in his native language of Maldonian, which is descended from Italian. Though, it should be noted that his voice actor, Bruno Campos , is Brazilian-born. Prince Naveen is a fun loving and lazy yet educated philanderer. He loves dancing, playing music, and women. He is also extremely vain and narcissistic and he find himself gorgeous and strikingly handsome.
Despite this, when he realized he didn't know how to do anything, he seemed saddened by it. He made a promise to Tiana that he would get her restaurant, and was dedicated and determined to see it through.
Naveen is a tall guy about 20 years old. He is irresistibly handsome and attractive with a muscular and well-built body, dark brown hair and amber eyes. He has a slightly lighter skin tone than Tiana and often seen wearing commoner clothes over prince-like clothing. When first introduced, Naveen is seen wearing a dark cream vest with a white shirt, fitting into the style of traditional New Orleans.
As a frog, Naveen is slightly larger than Tiana. He is slender with a dark greenish skin tone with a light brown parade of spots on his back. It is revealed that due to his lazy ways, Naveen's family has cut him off from his fortune. Thus, he intends marry a wealthy southern belle to gain money, and he sets his sights on Charlotte La Bouff. Naveen, who is accompanied by his valet, Lawrence , meets a voodoo witch doctor named Doctor Facilier , who promises both men their dreams.
Naveen doesn't really want to be tied down in marriage - he wants money and freedom. Faciler looks into Naveen's future and promises Naveen green. To Naveen, green refers to money. After making a deal with Facilier, Naveen was turned into a frog to 'hop from place to place', gaining him his 'green' and his freedom from responsibility, and Lawrence took his place.
Naveen later came across Tiana , who he thought was a princess due to her attire, and asks her for help. Naveen attempts to follow the story of the Frog Prince. Naveen believes a kiss from a princess will break the spell, and so he asks Tiana to kiss him.
While Naveen is correct in how the curse is broken, Tiana is not a princess and so the spell backfires. Due to the mixup, Naveen remains a frog and Tiana is turned into a frog as well. Naveen and Tiana are chased by Charlote's dog, Stella, and the pair ends up in the Bayou. Naveen explains to Tiana that he was turned into a frog by the shadow man. Tiana then tells him that she is not a princess but a waitress. After he marries Charlotte, the couple will purchase the mill that Tiana wants to convert to a restaurant.
In return, Tiana will assist Naveen in leaving the Bayou. While in the bayou, they meet an alligator named Louis. Louis takes Naveen and Tiana to a kind voodoo fairy godmother Mama Odie, who can help them become human again. Could be anything. His voice is from a brazilian man, but that doesn't mean he's brazilian either. I doubt most people were angry lol. That's just silly. Perhaps a little let down. I personally think it would've been cool to see a black prince represented just like other Disney princes were.
People fail to realize that are different black people all of the world. He doesn't have to be African American. I always thought he was a French black man. So yes he could b a French black man. He's not french An yways i like how positive this comment section is. He's half indian, i guess. Bc of his name which is an Indian name and in the end of the movie his mother was wearing a saree. Is it confirmed that she's wearing a sari?
It's possible that it's a sash like the one Navine and his dad are wearing. Why is he "half" Indian? Couldnt his dad be Indian too? If you weren't saying "race shouldn't be an issue" when studios casted black men in stereotypically violent and uncivil ways,as they typically have done, then you sound unreasonable to say "I don't know who would be mad at this. Prince Naveen is Indian to some degree. Only because Naveen is an Indian name. His mother also happens to wear a saree and Indian jewelry and plus his skin colour?
After spending the last 30 minutes browsing the interwebs and exploring the question of Prince Naveen's racial ambiguity, I have come to the conclusion that the world will never know what race Naveen is supposed to represent.
The more important question to consider then, is if this was an ingenious decision on Disney's part or rather a self-incriminating one.
Though I failed to find any solid evidence from the Walt Disney Company itself or any extremely compelling arguments for one race over the other, I did happen upon a large number of various articles, blog posts, and journals criticizing one facet or another of Naveen's race.
Like Ajay Gehlawat asserts in "The Strange Case of The Princess and the Frog : Passing and the Elision of Race", Naveen encompasses physical and linguistic traits that associate him with both India and France, two cultures that are indisputably different.
Why did Disney feel the need to do this? Naveen's character is an artistic decision that I may never get over because I am just so perplexed as to why Disney consciously crafted him to be the way that he is. Though I have little evidence, which I believe was a purposeful maneuver by Disney to keep Naveen's racial identity as ambiguous as possible, I too will add my voice to the masses and speculate as to why Naveen essentially possesses "no race". No matter how much I thought about it, it just did not make logical sense to me that Disney would purposefully conceive such an obscure prince-- but then I realized that this obscurity was the point.
By refusing to categorize Naveen, Disney is able to get closer to achieving the paradoxically race-representing and race-blind film that it so desires. By confusing the audience enough over the topic of race through Naveen, Disney is able to mold The Princess and the Frog to address both those who believe that race is represented positively and those who believe that race is represented negatively in the film.
It is a phenomenon that, at least for me, warrants enough bewilderment that, after intensively trying to discover an answer and failing, I have no choice but to let it be. It would be interesting to view Disney's true motive behind creating this film. My guess is that they felt pressured to encompass diversity in their films, and didn't know how to go about it in a "politically correct" manner that would appeal to their target audience.
Thus, Naveen was born out of their desire to at once introduce "Otherness" but also adhere to the traditional European princes that are known to sell to the public.
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