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Marigold (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 24

Fresh: 8

Rotten:16

Average Rating: 4.6/10

Rated: PG

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:17-08-2007

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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Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
08/18/07
Times [UK]
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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
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
Daily Telegraph
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Bollywood cheerfully meets – not Hollywood, exactly, more straight-to-video.

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

Goofy and sweet.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
08/17/07
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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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
Sun Online
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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
Channel 4 Film
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Despite boasting bags of colour, energy and top Bollywood actor Salman Khan, this cross cultural concoction falls halfway between the genres.

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08/17/07
Jaspreet Pandohar
BBC
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A sari attempt to hybridise Hollywood and Bollywood.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
08/17/07
Matthew Leyland
Total Film

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
Time Out
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The final half hour may lose its way but this remains a sassy and endearing romantic effort.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
08/17/07
Kat Brown
Empire Magazine
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An ambitious but largely successful attempt to marry Bollywood and Hollywood, Marigold is worth seeing for Ali Larter's performance and some joyous musical numbers.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
08/16/07
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

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.

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07/29/08
Brian Orndorf
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01/18/08
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
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
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.

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08/19/07
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies

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
Spirituality and Practice

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

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08/17/07
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
New York Times
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