Bollywood/Hollywood

I am a devoted fan to Deepa Mehta's Earth, Water, and Fire trilogy which I have found deeply moving. However, this film I could barely sit through. I have seen a few (quite a few) Bollywood films and it would... Full review

B/H stands up as a comedy AND an affectionate parody of Bollywood formula romances. The very title underscores the love-hate relationship many contemporary South Asian filmmakers feel about the Hollywood hegemon (see http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue9/bollywood.html ). As such, it offers a sly... Full review

I am a fan of satire, and this movie has not been appreciated for what it is - a spoof, not only of the high flying Bollywood musicals with weeping widows and on-cue dance routines in full costume but it... Full review

If you like Lisa Ray and Rahul Khanna, this film is totally for you. I first saw Rahul Khann doing VJ work for AVS and I saw him in "Earth" with Aamir Khan and was totally blown away by his... Full review

For all those who felt the film was not the most fabulous or felt it wasn't a representative of the Bollywood industry etc., then you need to know this:1) This movie was sold as a spoof of the Indian film... Full review

I enjoyed this film immensely, and found it a humorous take on second-generation Indo-Canadian life. The songs were enjoyable (my only complaint about the film is that the songs weren't subtitled - a bit frustrating for those of us that... Full review

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... Full review

Took me a while to click into the humour of this one, have only seen a few Bollywood films but this one struck me as almost a spoof - combining traditional Hollywood romantic comedy themes with Bollywood flair and musical... Full review

Humour is obviously not Deepa Mehta's forte as she ambles through a painful comedy that barely has any humour in it. The production values of the movie are low. The movie is intended to poke fun at traditional Indian value... Full review

This homage to Bollywood movies is actually a melodramatic farce with vibrant colors and a just dose of romance. The movie does have some charm and is funny in more than one way. But more musical numbers would have been... Full review

romantic comedies, Westerns or crime thrillers, are successful to the degree to which they balance innovation and fealty to their genres' strict narrative rules.....the lurid, hyperbolic melodramas....Bollywood/Hollywood is trivial and, with all its nods to cutting-edge editing, even trite.....Rahul is nursing his troubles at a bar.... ... Full Review

Bollywood/Hollywood hurls us right into its unabashedly campy humor, with a dying father speaking in golf analogy to impart final words to his only son: focus on a goal, and don't get distracted by "the cheerleaders. Cloaked in the friction of two young East Indians living in Toronto, fusing and reconciling familial tradition with Western values, Bollywood/ Hollywood should be a funny, wry flick about cultural hybridity. ... Full Review

Worse, the incredibly stiff performances and tuneless, clinker musical numbers don't help.....Unfortunately, it's so inept that it may appeal to neither.....Writer-director Deepa Mehta has also made some crucial casting mistakes.....he's not a likable hero..... ... Full Review

Worse, the incredibly stiff performances and tuneless, clinker musical numbers don't help. As played by Khanna, Rahul seems a duplicitous and shallow; he's not a likable hero. ... Full Review

This movie seems cursed with a lactose intolerance..... ... Full Review

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John Abraham, Celina Jaitley, Shilpa Shetty and Malaika Arora Khan have something in common apart from their celebrity status. They have come forward to endorse a message for animal welfare in the country. ... Full Article

Two-time Academy award winner Spencer Tracy's advice to aspiring actors was delightfully straightforward: learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture. The problem - as many Indian actors have discovered over the years - is that there's much more... ... Full Article

Mumbai: He's someone who has never acted in front of a camera but is teaching the nuances of acting to the best stars in Bollywood. ... Full Article

Gone are the days when a love making scene in India was symbolized through pecking pigeons or swaying flowers. It's the age of real cinema and today actors and directors want to give a real feel to their cinematic characters. ... Full Article

This one is a voluminous book. A real voluminous one at that. If Shah Rukh Khan has been known for his non-stop talk then writer Mushtaq Sheikh too doesn't appear far behind when it comes to translating his thoughts into... ... Full Article