From the second the opening credits began, I knew this was a VERY different film than the average fare I had seen at Sundance up to that point. The initial scene reveals the movie to be the bizarre, absurd, and over the top London Bollywood film that it is, coming from the director of Bride and Prejudice and Bend it Like Beckham. Full of murders, intrigue, weight-loss plans, haunting blue specters awaiting reincarnation, and a mother dying to get her daughter married, this film both qualifies and defies many of the stereotypical elements of Bollywood films, making it a crazy roller coaster of unbelievably cheesy moments. This film pulled some bigger actors - giving decent performances - but for a film as hairbrained as this, it seems as though the crew, cast, and filmmakers had much more fun making the film than the viewer did actually watching it (as evidenced by the making-of style credits). The technical quality of the film was impeccable, but when the subject matter and plot is so completely random, only a British/Indian rendition of the gym floor Carrie sequence could really bring this film full circle. This was a surprising breath amidst the weighty, heavy stories of Sundance, but as a stand-alone film, I'm not sure I would have ventured to the theater to see it.
No one in attendance for this screening
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1/27/2010
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