It’s colourful and pacy and the musical interludes are fun. But, on the whole, Marigold is predictable to the end.
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
Reviews for Marigold
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.
Carroll seems to be saying that we should regard Bollywood as a harmless part of Indian culture.
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."
The final half hour may lose its way but this remains a sassy and endearing romantic effort.
Bollywood cheerfully meets – not Hollywood, exactly, more straight-to-video.
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.
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.
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.
Marigold is saved from the predictability of its setup by the enthusiasm of its cast, color-drenched sets and costumes, and full-on musical numbers staged outdoors on a beautiful seaside stage.
This first co-production between the United States and India starts badly and never recovers.
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.
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