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Marigold (2007)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:8
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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Release:
Nov 30, 1999
Reviews for Marigold
The final half hour may lose its way but this remains a sassy and endearing romantic effort.
This first co-production between the United States and India starts badly and never recovers.
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.
If you enjoy such Bollywood-style numbers, try to tune out the movie when the music drops off and you'll enjoy it more.
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.
Bollywood cheerfully meets – not Hollywood, exactly, more straight-to-video.
Carroll seems to be saying that we should regard Bollywood as a harmless part of Indian culture.
a colorful charmer that might even persuade a few skeptics to check out the real thing.
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.
Despite boasting bags of colour, energy and top Bollywood actor Salman Khan, this cross cultural concoction falls halfway between the genres.
As Prem's dad says of his son's feature film career, "I know nothing about dancing and the plots seem ludicrous to me."
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.
[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.
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.
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