Loins Of Punjab Presents

This charming movie was such a pleasure to watch. It's funny, clever and touching. The acting was first-rate. I'm only sorry that we were the only ones in the theater.... Full review

This film left me smiling and kept my interest. A must see! It captures a cross section of human emotion that its characters expertly convey with strong identification to the audience. I was just killing time, but in the end I... Full review

It is an awesome movie unlike high budget super flop movies like laaga chunri mein daag, dhol etc. The film has no story as such. But it's a mad comedy, and you don't feel bored even for a moment. All the... Full review

This movie is really quite simple, a low budget NRI film, thats guarantees laughs, and thanks to the low budget maybe even commercial success. But every once in a while a movie like this hits the mainstream, and almost all of... Full review

LOINS OF PUNJABS PRESENTS... gives the viewer some nice characters trying their best to realize their dreams in a New Jersey-based "Desi Idol" contest. The Gujarati family (Patels, naturally) is mined for much hilarity... the writer-director obviously knows the scene well,... Full review

Liked the movie. Manoj Acharya did well in a role. Ayesha Dharkar was good and Shabana is as most of the time - pretty effective. Darshan Jariwala and family was a classic - though Chiched touch. Seema Rahmani, Kunal Roy Kapoor... Full review

I saw the film quite by chance and was laughing out loud within the first 2 minutes. But to say that the film is very funny is to understate the case. It works on several levels thanks to deft observations of... Full review

Jameel Khan is hilarious as the pushy, lustful event organizer.....their performances are better but also because their roles are better written..... ... Full Review

First and foremost, this movie is really funny. Now, this movie isn't perfect. The plot is very familiar territory, everyone has something to gain and lose, but a talented cast and a truly hilarious script keep it from staying familiar for too long. ... Full Review

The film looks as if it was fun to make.....it's frightfully formulaic, with nary a twist....Loins" might be funnier to someone inside the culture;....Loins of Punjab Presents" is a sweet movie, full of hugs.... ... Full Review

Loins of Punjab Presents , the highest-rated Bollywood comedy, are hoping to make it as "roaring" a success in the US as it was in India by reaching out beyond Indian Americans. In fact, Acharya said, Shabana Azmi told him that she thought the script was very political, and powerful because the politics were submerged beneath the comedy. ... Full Review

NEW YORK: After a hugely successful run in India, Manish Acharya's delightful comedy 'Loins of Punjab Presents' opened in the Tri-State on September 12. The US is a tougher market as there are many more movies, as well as many more competing entertainment options, from sports, to live music, to plays, to art, etc. So I am finding it hard to calibrate my expectations. ... Full Review

He has studied in La Martiniere for Boys before going on to take up dramatic writing at Wesleyan University in the US. His father runs a hotel in Kolkata and his family has lived in Ballygunge Place for over 40... ... Full Article

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Turbanotorious BDG and his human beatbox grab some beauty sleep In Loins of Punjab Presents, the first feature from writer-director Manish Acharya, a large New Jersey pork loin company, founded by an Indian immigrant, decides to sponsor Desi Idol, an... ... Full Article

India Post News Service NEW YORK: After a hugely successful run in India, Manish Acharya's delightful comedy 'Loins of Punjab Presents' opened in the Tri-State on September 12. ... Full Article

The songs come from Bollywood, with the contestants drawn, for the most part, from the area's South Asian immigrant community, the exception being a certain Josh Cohen (Michael Raimondi), lover of Indian culture (and of a girl from Mumbai) who... ... Full Article

The zany incomprehensibility of the title should serve as fair warning of the quirkfest to come in neophyte filmmaker Manish Acharya 's Loins of Punjab Presents . ... Full Article