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Bride and Prejudice (2004) Movie Review
Gurinder Chadha’s “Bride and Prejudice”, supposedly a modern retelling (Bollywood style) of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, allows me to break out my favorite line when reviewing movies such as these: It is what...
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Asoka (2001) Movie Review
Despite having taken a course in Indian History in college, my biggest interest coming into the Indian epic “Asoka”, about the life of India’s greatest king/patron of Buddhism, wasn’t a matter of historical accuracy....
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Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) Movie Review
Deepa Mehta’s “Bollywood/Hollywood” is so obviously a parody of Hollywood romantic comedies and Bollywood melodrama that once you realize this, everything else is irrelevant. Like the South Korean movie “Resurrection of the Little Match...
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American Desi (2001) Movie Review
Ethnic-minded films like “American Desi” have a built-in advantage — even if the film fails miserably in every other respects, it can still rely on its little-known ethnicity — in this case, Indian —...
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Monsoon Wedding (2002) Movie Review
The inherent problem with reviewing a foreign film that comes from a country that you know very little about is, well, you know very little about the country. As a result, you (the critic...
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