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Marigold (2007)

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Rotten:16

Average Rating:4.6/10

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Hollywood meets Bollywood in this musical romance starring Ali Larter (HEROES) and Salman Khan. Larter plays a spoiled C-list actress who travels to India to be in a movie. But when she gets cast... Hollywood meets Bollywood in this musical romance starring Ali Larter (HEROES) and Salman Khan. Larter plays a spoiled C-list actress who travels to India to be in a movie. But when she gets cast in a musical, she must learn how to dance, and that's where a sexy choreographer (Khan) comes in. [More]

Starring: Salman Khan, Ali Larter, Nandana Sen, Ian Bohen

Starring: Salman Khan, Ali Larter, Nandana Sen, Ian Bohen, Gulshan Grover

Director: Willard Carroll

Director: Willard Carroll
Screenwriter: Willard Carroll
Producer: Charles Salmon, Tom Wilhite
Composer: Graeme Revell

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Nov 30, 1999

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  • In a "bouncy Bollywood meets Hollywood romantic comedy" (BBC Films), Ali Larter stars as feisty B-list actress Marigold Lexton, who, stranded and broke in Goa, India, after financing flops on her low-budget film, lands a role in a musical to pay her way home. Eager to prove herself, she seeks famed choreographer Prem Rajput's (Bollywood superstar Salman Khan) guidance, and a whirlwind romance begins…until Marigold discovers Prem holds a powerful, inescapable past—and a future that holds no place for her.
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    It seems the only thing worse than a faulty culture shock comedy with zero charm is a faulty culture shock comedy with zero charm starring Ali Larter.

    Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | comment Comment
    07/29/08
    Brian Orndorf
    Brian Orndorf
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    Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Tom Beer
    Tom Beer
    Time Out New York

    Bollywood fans will dismiss the mishmash as the work of an American director 'slumming' in a genre outside his own culture, and Western audiences unfamiliar with Hindi-language masala movies will find the whole thing puzzling.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
    09/10/07
    Kirk Honeycutt
    Kirk Honeycutt
    Hollywood Reporter
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    It's all dizzying, but what a delight.

    Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
    08/21/07
    Frank Lovece
    Frank Lovece
    Film Journal International

    Salman Khan is one of the big names in Bollywood whose appeal continually eludes, and here he simply proves that he is just as much a bafflement in English as he is in Hindi.

    Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
    08/19/07
    Michael Dequina
    Michael Dequina
    TheMovieReport.com
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    08/18/07
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    This first co-production between the United States and India starts badly and never recovers.

    Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
    Spirituality and Practice

    a colorful charmer that might even persuade a few skeptics to check out the real thing.

    Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Maitland McDonagh
    Maitland McDonagh
    TV Guide's Movie Guide

    [Director] Carroll knows his Bollywood stuff and, refreshingly, doesn’t apologize for, or waste time explaining, an industry and a style that most Americans still regard as silly. Instead, he honors them.

    Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Rachel Saltz
    Rachel Saltz
    New York Times
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    Rest assured, contrived love will prevail.

    Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Jack Mathews
    Jack Mathews
    New York Daily News
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    Carroll seems to be saying that we should regard Bollywood as a harmless part of Indian culture.

    Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Derek Malcolm
    Derek Malcolm
    This is London

    Ali Larter plays an amazingly bitchy actress sent to Bollywood. They hate her, then they love her. I didn't quite get the love bit.

    Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Tim Robey
    Tim Robey
    Daily Telegraph

    Bollywood cheerfully meets – not Hollywood, exactly, more straight-to-video.

    Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Martin Hoyle
    Martin Hoyle
    Financial Times

    Goofy and sweet.

    Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Peter Bradshaw
    Peter Bradshaw
    Guardian [UK]

    It’s colourful and pacy and the musical interludes are fun. But, on the whole, Marigold is predictable to the end.

    Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
    08/17/07
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    As Prem's dad says of his son's feature film career, "I know nothing about dancing and the plots seem ludicrous to me."

    Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Julia Raeside
    Julia Raeside
    Channel 4 Film

    Despite boasting bags of colour, energy and top Bollywood actor Salman Khan, this cross cultural concoction falls halfway between the genres.

    Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Jaspreet Pandohar
    Jaspreet Pandohar
    BBC

    A sari attempt to hybridise Hollywood and Bollywood.

    Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Matthew Leyland
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    Total Film
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    08/17/07
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    This fluffy cross-cultural experiment smacks of jumping on the Bollywood bandwagon with little insight into the genre it is trying to emulate or understanding of the country in which it’s set.

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
    08/17/07
    Anil Sinanan
    Anil Sinanan
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