I had heard that this movie is not as good as Bend It Like Bekham. But I got the VCD of the Hindi dubbed version titled Balle Balle Amritsar to LA. (All my comments are in relation only to the version I watched.)
The title cracked me up some weeks ago. I saw a trailer with Aishwarya Rai dancing with a white guy with water springs shooting up in sky in the background and the white guy sang in Hindi.
The first thing wrong with the film is the title. Throughout the movie I could feel the attitude of the maker - trivialising film making. Beckham was funny, but in this one Gurinder Chadha tries to extract humour out of trivialising the art of film making, trivialising her characters and thereby the whole movie. There is hardly a good funny moment in the movie.
Just imagine going to a restaurant and ordering every dish they have putting it in a big bucket, mixing it up and hoping that it would taste good. Gurinder tried that. It tastes awful.
The characters are poorly sketched. There is no concept of relationship building. The second sentence that people say to each other sounds like they know each other since years. Dialogues have been written with no seriousness or thought. There is too much happening at an unrealistic pace. Somehow the flow and direction of narration lacks credibility. Everything in the movie is fake. The director has made no effort to understand the real people and has gone on her own ride using people for granted. Her understanding of Indians and Westerners - both - is out of the real. There is extreme polarisation. There is nothing new about this. The love for Indian culture is more jingoistic than real. And what better way to show love for Indian culture than by bringing westerners and making them say crappy things about India. It's so old, I don't even think people do that the way they do in this movie.
The funny moments are those ridiculous scenes. The best of them is the last scene with Darcy hitting the Dhol.
By the Way, through the first half of the movie I thought Aishwarya Rai was the eldest sister. But it seems Namrata Shirodkar is. LOL. Aishwarya Rai looks so much older than Namrata.
Gurinder tried too much Marketing while making this film - this film is the worst ever film a man or a woman could make.
The title cracked me up some weeks ago. I saw a trailer with Aishwarya Rai dancing with a white guy with water springs shooting up in sky in the background and the white guy sang in Hindi.
The first thing wrong with the film is the title. Throughout the movie I could feel the attitude of the maker - trivialising film making. Beckham was funny, but in this one Gurinder Chadha tries to extract humour out of trivialising the art of film making, trivialising her characters and thereby the whole movie. There is hardly a good funny moment in the movie.
Just imagine going to a restaurant and ordering every dish they have putting it in a big bucket, mixing it up and hoping that it would taste good. Gurinder tried that. It tastes awful.
The characters are poorly sketched. There is no concept of relationship building. The second sentence that people say to each other sounds like they know each other since years. Dialogues have been written with no seriousness or thought. There is too much happening at an unrealistic pace. Somehow the flow and direction of narration lacks credibility. Everything in the movie is fake. The director has made no effort to understand the real people and has gone on her own ride using people for granted. Her understanding of Indians and Westerners - both - is out of the real. There is extreme polarisation. There is nothing new about this. The love for Indian culture is more jingoistic than real. And what better way to show love for Indian culture than by bringing westerners and making them say crappy things about India. It's so old, I don't even think people do that the way they do in this movie.
The funny moments are those ridiculous scenes. The best of them is the last scene with Darcy hitting the Dhol.
By the Way, through the first half of the movie I thought Aishwarya Rai was the eldest sister. But it seems Namrata Shirodkar is. LOL. Aishwarya Rai looks so much older than Namrata.
Gurinder tried too much Marketing while making this film - this film is the worst ever film a man or a woman could make.