You don't want to miss this-- it's a blend of Fat greek wedding, Billy
Elliot Monsoon wedding, and the Best Sports Movies. At the end of the
movie the whole audience clapped. I've been to excellent movies before w
here a few people tentatively put their hands together. I've never seen
such an enthusiastic applause in a theater. And the movie deserves it. We
went to the big local megaplex 24 theater movie house even though this is
also showing in art movie theaters. And it was sold out, filled to
capacity.
This is a movie about a young woman's struggle with her Sikh Indian
parents' rules and traditions versus being a contemporary adult who talks
the same talk as all the other British kids and British Indian kids who,
outside of the house, away from the parents are like any other older teen.
The acting is superb. We have some great new faces destined for stardom.
The music is an awesome blend of western rock and pop and Indian
contemporary music.
Good stories are built around characters who fascinate us, who we relate
to, who we care about and this movie introduces a whole batch of them-- at
least six superb actors who you will look forward to seeing again. They
played out a script that provided the actors with wonderful characters who
made complex, difficult decisions and showed brilliant flawed humanity.
This is a movie about clashing cultures and how real people adjust to
those clashes. The World Trade Center Bombing was also about that clash of
cultures. This movie does a beautiful job of showing how such clashes,
fraught with strong emotion and opinons, can be worked out for a positive
outcome. I'd like to see a similar movie with a clash between westerners
and the Islamic world. It's important to build bridges through humor and
positive emotions. This movie was fabulously successful at doing that.
When we left the theater we felt great. This movie has something for
everyone-- the drama of rebellion and the risk a child takes defying
parents, romance, sports and plenty of humor. If this is bollywood--
India's answer to Hollywood, I'm ready for more!
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