A wealthy East Indian man gives an apparently non-East Indian woman a crash course in his culture, so he can marry her with his family's approval.
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Deepa MehtaWriter:
Deepa Mehta
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| Rahul Khanna | ... | Rahul Seth | |
| Lisa Ray | ... | Sue (Sunita) Singh | |
| Moushumi Chatterjee | ... | Mummy ji | |
| Dina Pathak | ... | Grandma ji | |
| Kulbhushan Kharbanda | ... | Mr. Singh | |
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Ranjit Chowdhry | ... | Rocky |
| Jessica Paré | ... | Kimberly | |
| Rishma Malik | ... | Twinky | |
| Jasbir Mann | ... | Bobby (as Jazz Mann) | |
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Arjun Lombardi-Singh | ... | Go (Govind) |
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Leesa Gaspari | ... | Lucy |
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Neelam Mansingh | ... | Mrs. Singh |
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Mike Deol | ... | Killer Khalsa (as Killer Khalsa) |
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Jolly Bader | ... | Daddy ji |
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Ronica Sajnani | ... | Ronica |
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After Rahul's white pop-star fiancée dies in a bizarre levitation accident his mother insists he find another girl as soon as possible, preferably a Hindi one. As she backs this up by postponing his sister's wedding until he does so, he feels forced to act, the more so as he knows his sister is pregnant. But it's a pretty tall order for an Indian living in Ontario, so when he meets striking escort Sunita who can 'be whatever you want me to be' he hatches a scheme to pass her off as his new betrothed. Things get complicated when his family start to take to her and he realises his own feelings are becoming rather stronger than that. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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Country:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$18,014, 3 October 2003, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$1,491,083, 12 October 2003Company Credits
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Composed by O.P. Nayyar
Remixed by Sandeep Chowta
Performed by Sanjeev Wadwani
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One caveat: if you have never seen a Bollywood movie, you probably won't find this very funny. The point is, director Deepa Mehta has taken just about every Bollywood cliché, exaggerated it, swirled it around and mixed it with a Hollywood love story and created a perfectly funny Bollywood parody that had me in giggles from the weepy deathbed scene at the beginning through most of the movie.
Depth? Don't expect any. This is about as lightweight (and sometimes silly) as comedy can get, with the usual suspension of disbelief necessary for Bollywood movies.
The title doesn't really have anything to do with the plot; it's more of a programmatic statement, as Mehta tries to intertwine Bollywood and Hollywood elements into a musical romantic comedy.
The Bollywood bits are the more successful, as Mehta sems to have the necessary expertise to exploit them for parody and quirky humour; sadly, the weakest point of the movie is when the Bollywood/Hollywood formula shifts too much towards the Hollywood side and tries to incorporate too much of the typical Hollywood 'romantic comedy' storyline. All of a sudden the script seems to take itself too seriously, and the whole thing, which had been very fresh and entertaining up until then, suddenly tastes very stale, and we get the umpteenth reprise of "love in danger through misunderstanding", and whereas the Bollywood melodrama had been masterly turned into brilliant parody, the Hollywood drama just stands as it is and is presented at face value, which is a major disappointment.
However, the 75 minutes of hilarious Bollywood parody will more than compensate for those 15 minutes of Hollywood lameness. So will the excellent Bollywood-inspired (and Hollywood-compatible) music. Just don't expect depth.