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Bollywood/Hollywood
Film review
Also, there's an air of smugness and superiority here as if the filmmakers thought that by both parodying and paying homage to Bollywood musical fantasies and formulaic Hollywood romantic comedies they could come up with something better.
Instead, it's off-putting and rather unappealing. Worse, the incredibly stiff performances and tuneless, clinker musical numbers don't help. And at 105 minutes, it feels longer much longer than some of the epic-length Indian features it's sending up.
"Bollywood/Hollywood" follows the Seths, a family of well-to-do Indian transplants that has gotten a little too comfortable with the American way of life. (Which is not too surprising, considering they're living in Hollywood.) That's certainly true of Rahul (Rahul Khanna), the oldest son, who is being pressured by his mother (Moushumi Chatterjee) to marry.
Writer-director Deepa Mehta has also made some crucial casting mistakes. As played by Khanna, Rahul seems a duplicitous and shallow; he's not a likable hero. And Ray is so wooden she could be used as material for set construction.
"Bollywood/Hollywood" is rated PG-13 for scattered use of strong profanity, some crude sexual talk, brief sexual contact and a brief scene of violence (a schoolyard scuffle, done in slapstick style). Running time: 105 minutes.
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Cast: Rahul Khanna, Lisa Ray, Rishma Malik, Moushumi Chatterjee; in English, Hindi and Spanish, with English subtitles
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