Bollywood/Hollywood

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

Bollywood/Hollywood" is trivial and, with all its nods to cutting-edge editing, even trite. The best way to enjoy "Bollywood/Hollywood" fully is, to paraphrase one of Mehta's own subtitles, "Please now to be lightening up. ... Full Review

D eepa Mehta tries to enact Bollywood magic on the Hollywood-fed generation with Bollywood/Hollywood , and she succeeds. It was surprising and invigorating to see a lighthearted romantic comedy by Deepa Mehta, from whom everyone has come to expect nothing but racy and controversial films. ... Full Review

After making a string of social commentaries, Canadian director Deepa Mehta satirizes India's beloved genre in the lighthearted romantic musical Bollywood/Hollywood. Bollywood/Hollywood doesn't feature particularly outstanding music or choreography, ... ... Full Review

Calling the film, 'effervescently nonsensical new movie,' The Toronto Star said it succeeded in celebrating Toronto. Mehta wanted the movie to be a refreshingly different kind of Canadian product. The cast is competent, yet far from magical. ... Full Review

The good news: how staggeringly attractive and likable the two leads are; Dina Pathak's hilarious turn as Rahul's theatre-quoting grandmother; what were apparently dead-on send-ups of Bollywood clichés (judging from audience reaction); and the abundance of joyful musical sequences. ... Full Review