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		<title>Bride and Prejudice (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2005 05:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gurinder Chadha&#8217;s &#8220;Bride and Prejudice&#8221;, supposedly a modern retelling (Bollywood style) of Jane Austen&#8217;s &#8220;Pride and Prejudice&#8221;, allows me to break out my favorite line when reviewing movies such as these: It is what it is, and if you went into this film knowing what it is, and yet expecting more than what it is capable of, then it&#8217;s entirely your fault for being disappointed. As with her earlier international success, the Keira Knightley soccer flick &#8220;Bend It Like Beckham&#8221;, Chadha attempts once again to bring Bollywood to Hollywood. To this end, Chadha has teamed up India&#8217;s most well known female personality (and one-time Miss World) Aishwarya Rai, with New Zealander Martin Henderson (&#8221;Torque&#8221;), here playing a dashing American. 
&#8220;Bride and Prejudice&#8221; breaks down and proceeds in the predictable pattern one is used to with romantic comedies, rather they be from Hollywood, India, or the UK. Boy meets girl; boy and girl falls for one another; obstacle enters; they rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asoka (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2003 19:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite having taken a course in Indian History in college, my biggest interest coming into the Indian epic &#8220;Asoka&#8221;, about the life of India&#8217;s greatest king/patron of Buddhism, wasn&#8217;t a matter of historical accuracy. It was this: Are the sing and dance numbers in Bollywood movies meant to fit into the flow of story continuity, or are they supposed to be considered abnormal interludes that have no bearing on the facts of the film? Well according to &#8220;Asoka&#8221;, it&#8217;s a little of both. 
Shahrukh Khan stars as the titular character, a real-life Prince who, around 250 BC or thereabouts, united most of Ancient India under his rule. The movie purports to tell the tale of the man who would be king by spending half of its nearly 3-hour running length showing the lighter side of Asoka as he goes into voluntary exile, romances a fugitive princess, and ends up in all kinds of hilarious adventures. The rest is all blood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2003 06:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deepa Mehta&#8217;s &#8220;Bollywood/Hollywood&#8221; 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 &#8220;Resurrection of the Little Match Girl&#8221;, &#8220;Bollywood/Hollywood&#8221; loses its charm as soon as you realize what the purpose of the movie is. Beyond this great &#8220;insight&#8221; (yes, I am being sarcastic), you can only hope for a couple of chuckles to tie you over to the inevitable ending. (And even if the film admits the inevitable ending is inevitable on purpose, the result is still the same &#8212; a big, &#8220;Eh, whatever.&#8221;) 
Here&#8217;s the basic rundown of &#8220;Bollywood&#8221;: Indian family member Rahul (Rahul Khanna) is ordered by his highly traditional family to marry. Since the family dismisses Rahul&#8217;s first choice, a white girl who the sassy grandmother calls a &#8220;big white whore&#8221; (or something to that affect), Rahul goes in search of an Indian girl to make the family happy. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Desi (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethnic-minded films like &#8220;American Desi&#8221; have a built-in advantage &#8212; even if the film fails miserably in every other respects, it can still rely on its little-known ethnicity &#8212; in this case, Indian &#8212; to save the day. This is a good thing, because had &#8220;American Desi&#8221; been just another movie about freshmen trying to adjust to life in college, it would fail miserably. As it stands, the film just barely manages to stay afloat, and that, as previously mentioned, is thanks to its Indian angle. 
Deep Katdare stars as Krishna Reddy, an Americanized Indian who is so out of touch with his roots that he refuses to be acknowledged by anything other than Kris. Born and bred in America, Kris&#8217; best buddy is Caucasian Eric (Eric Axen), who he has known since they were kids. When the two leave home for college, Kris gets a rude awakening when he&#8217;s put in the same dorm with 3 other Indians, each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monsoon Wedding (2002) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 or viewer) are forced to accept the premise of this strange &#8220;world&#8221; that is being shown to you. After all, you can&#8217;t disagree with what you don&#8217;t know. This is a slightly amusing problem in my case, since I had just taken an entire college semester in Indian history and passed with a solid &#8220;A&#8221;. So I do know something about India&#8217;s history, but I couldn&#8217;t tell you anything about its culture. 
Mira Nair&#8217;s Monsoon Wedding is a Bollywood production (&#8221;Bollywood&#8221; being a play on the American concept of &#8220;Hollywood movies&#8221;) about the Vermas, a middle-class Indian family getting ready for their oldest daughter&#8217;s arranged marriage. Since this is an arranged wedding, the bride and groom have never met and know nothing about each other. This [...]]]></description>
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