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Overview

User Rating:
6.2/10   1,388 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Deepa Mehta (writer)
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Release Date:
25 October 2002 (Canada) more
Tagline:
Nothing is what it appears to be.
Plot:
The Seth family reside in Canada. While Mr. Seth has passed away, his mom is still alive, living with her daughter-in-law... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 5 nominations more
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Parody? Yes. But With a Kicker more (60 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Rahul Khanna ... Rahul Seth

Lisa Ray ... Sue (Sunita) Singh
Moushumi Chatterjee ... Mummy ji
Dina Pathak ... Grandma ji
Kulbhushan Kharbanda ... Mr. Singh
Ranjit Chowdhry ... Rocky

Jessica Paré ... Kimberly

Rishma Malik ... Twinky

Jazz Mann ... Bobby
Arjun Lombardi-Singh ... Go (Govind)
Leesa Gaspari ... Lucy
Neelam Mansingh ... Mrs. Singh
Mike Deol ... Killer Khalsa (as Killer Khalsa)
Jolly Bader ... Daddy ji
Ronica Sajnani ... Ronica
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bollywood Hollywood (Canada: English title) (DVD box title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sensuality/partial nudity, some crude language and drug references.
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105 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Killer Khalsa is a real wrestler, and the website listed when he appears is his official site. When he heard Deepa Mehta was making the movie, he contacted her as he wanted to break into acting. more
Quotes:
Rocky: Shakalaka Baby! more
Movie Connections:
Features Zubeidaa (2001) more
Soundtrack:
Because the Show Fits more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Parody? Yes. But With a Kicker, 18 January 2005
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Author: rlelias from United States

B/H stands up as a comedy AND an affectionate parody of Bollywood formula romances. The very title underscores the love-hate relationship many contemporary South Asian filmmakers feel about the Hollywood hegemon (see http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue9/bollywood.html ). As such, it offers a sly reworking of the Pretty Woman formula, with an Indian twist – which raises the question of why Mehta's writers chose THAT Hollywood movie to build a comic plot upon. One answer requires examination of how women, especially young women, are depicted in Bollywood movies, which valorize – even enforce – Ramayana-like ideals of female purity versus the reality and problems of female identity in a modern world. Compare Mehta's Fire. The comedy and parody in B/H offers a different take on a Mehta theme. The Shakespeare-quoting grandmother reflects another aspect of the film's comic concern with the clash between tradition and modernity – here, the kind of British-inspired education the grandmother would have received, which often required students to memorize whole scenes from Shakespeare (whose plays were and are very popular in India). The comic turnabout at the end might be examined in light of equally sudden turnabouts in movies like DDLJ, the difference being that the main blocking character at the end of B/H is Sunita herself. Her father, minutes before, reverses himself BECAUSE he has seen movies like that one. A very "filmi" intrusion into the comic plot, but (true to Mehta's sympathies) it is Sunita herself who becomes – for a moment – the blocking character whose needs must be recognized. It's a matter of HER identity, albeit within the framework of Bollywood comic romance. As such, her situation offers, for the perceptive, a bittersweet comic take on a question Mehta raises more seriously elsewhere. B/H is a parody, yes, but it has a serious side as well. Think about this while you laugh.

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