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Release Date:
16 May 2008 (USA)
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Tagline:
Passion has its price.
Plot:
A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj. full summary | full synopsis
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British
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India
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British Raj
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Affair
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British Colonial
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Awards:
1 win
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1 nomination
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(9 articles)
Acl Fest - Day Three
(From PasteMagazine. 6 October 2009, 9:12 PM, PDT)
Sohail Khan will now complete a Childhood Dream
(From RealBollywood. 15 September 2009, 9:18 AM, PDT)
(From PasteMagazine. 6 October 2009, 9:12 PM, PDT)
Sohail Khan will now complete a Childhood Dream
(From RealBollywood. 15 September 2009, 9:18 AM, PDT)
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Linus Roache | ... | Henry Moores |
 | Rahul Bose | ... | T. K. Neelan |
| Nandita Das | ... | Sajani |
 | Jennifer Ehle | ... | Laura Moores |
| Leopold Benedict | ... | Peter Moores |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Dr. Ambikathmajan | ... | T.K.'s Headmaster |
| Indrajith | ... | Manas |
| Lakshmi Krishnamurthy | ... | T.K.'s mom |
| Lal | ... | Rajat (as Lal Paul) |
| John Standing | ... | Charles Humphries |
| Thilakan | ... | T.K.'s Father |
| Ejji K. Umamahesh | ... | Inspector Sampath |
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Also Known As:
Road to the Sky (UK) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violent content and a scene of sexuality.
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98 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 |
Canada:14A (Manitoba) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) |
UK:12 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-13
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Remake of Asphalt Zahov (2001)
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This movie fails to offer anything new to a genre that has traditionally shown the cross cultural love story underpinned by the politics mid 20th century / pre-WWII India, where the British and their modern ways are bad and the primitive but honest and true Indians are good. Surely such clichéd depictions of the British are rather passé now.
Apart from the drama that fuels the second part of the movie the narrative is predictable, the acting is pedestrian and two-dimensional, and the directing obvious and unimaginative.
The story really needed to be fleshed out and would certainly have benefited from another half an hour of screen time to give the characters and narrative more depth and give the viewer something to feel some investment in.
All in all, rather uninspiring. Oh and Linus Roache just cannot do tragedy - going cross-eyed with emotional pain just doesn't work for me!