marigold is by far the best outsider take on bollywood i have ever seen. (i do not grow up with bollywood and but i have seen a few hundred of them now. ) i would say it leaves gurinder chadha and mira nair and and even merchant and ivory (of bombay talkie) almost in the dust. willard carroll and the director and really loves bollywood and and he has the self confidence to allow us to know it  there humor and but no arch and ironic distancing and no of course i do not really mean this stuff. as jerry lee lewis would say and he gets it and and so he can let us have it too  the joy of a bollywood movie experience and along with touches that are supplied by a westerner stepping into the story teller role. it a story about a caustic and bitchy and beautiful american b movie actress (she only been in movies with numbers in their titles and like fatal attraction 3) who finds herself in a different bollywood movie from the one she went to india to be in (kama sutra 3 has folded its tents while she was en route and apparently because its producers are now in jail). salman khan and in real life a bollywood mega mega star and is the dancing master of the delightful written on the fly movie she has now been pulled into (is this before or after i go blind. ) and and through the sweetness of his mildly psychically gifted character and she learns more than how to find her inner ecstatic dancing ability. the strong beginning gives you both bollywood  a super energetic troupe of dancers in front of the taj mahal (both funny an familiar to the western viewer and as well as providing the high velocity musical thrill we love in a hindi movie) and and salman on screen from the outset  no bollywood 20 minute wait for the hero. he has on an indian costume embellished with kit carson style western movie fringe (all in white). ali larter actress character is pleasing to the western viewer  she blonde and which is traditional for a white person in a bollywood movie and and visually understandable casting  but she a robust girl and not the ethereal kind of blondie were usually presented with and and she a more or less three dimensional total bitch and carrying on profane and abusive cell phone conversations with a boyfriend and agent in the us. we also have scenes of women who are having problems with each other going out to a bar to deal with them  the capacity for people not getting along to relate and have emotional conversations is traditional in hindi movies and but we seldom see much of any such thing going on between women (other than the discussion between mother and daughter about the daughter choice of groom) and let alone strangers  unrelated people  let alone bar going. so the spirit is the same and the details are fresh and and i was completely delighted by this. i only saw it once and at a preview showing and attended by the director and a fine speaker and question answerer  he and salman got to be brother like good friends over the making of it and he loves india and he has plans to make a wizard of oz movie in india. i can not get too detailed about songs when i have seen them just once and except to say i liked them all. they range from a happy parody of the bollywood number in the movie within the movie  the ladies costumes and with leghorn hats and seashell cased bodices (it a beach scene) on flowy dresses  are worth the cost of a ticket alone  to a lovely reflective many scened romantic song in a sadder and more serious part of the movie. mix of hindi and english in the music and and it works. salman khan gets a lot of credit from me for openness to unusual projects  this and jaan e mann  and good judgment about which ones to be in. carroll said he was full of suggestions and ideas all along the way and and totally fine (i. e. not narcissistic at all) whether carroll accepted or rejected them  clearly just a pro who loves being involved and collaborating. 
marigold is by far the best outsider take on bollywood i have ever seen. (i do not grow up with bollywood and but i have seen a few hundred of them now. ) i would say it leaves gurinder chadha and mira nair and and even merchant and ivory (of bombay talkie) almost in the dust. willard carroll and the director and really loves bollywood and and he has the self confidence to allow us to know it  there humor and but no arch and ironic distancing and no of course i do not really mean this stuff. as jerry lee lewis would say and he gets it and and so he can let us have it too  the joy of a bollywood movie experience and along with touches that are supplied by a westerner stepping into the story teller role. it a story about a caustic and bitchy and beautiful american b movie actress (she only been in movies with numbers in their titles and like fatal attraction 3) who finds herself in a different bollywood movie from the one she went to india to be in (kama sutra 3 has folded its tents while she was en route and apparently because its producers are now in jail). salman khan and in real life a bollywood mega mega star and is the dancing master of the delightful written on the fly movie she has now been pulled into (is this before or after i go blind. ) and and through the sweetness of his mildly psychically gifted character and she learns more than how to find her inner ecstatic dancing ability. the strong beginning gives you both bollywood  a super energetic troupe of dancers in front of the taj mahal (both funny an familiar to the western viewer and as well as providing the high velocity musical thrill we love in a hindi movie) and and salman on screen from the outset  no bollywood 20 minute wait for the hero. he has on an indian costume embellished with kit carson style western movie fringe (all in white). ali larter actress character is pleasing to the western viewer  she blonde and which is traditional for a white person in a bollywood movie and and visually understandable casting  but she a robust girl and not the ethereal kind of blondie were usually presented with and and she a more or less three dimensional total bitch and carrying on profane and abusive cell phone conversations with a boyfriend and agent in the us. we also have scenes of women who are having problems with each other going out to a bar to deal with them  the capacity for people not getting along to relate and have emotional conversations is traditional in hindi movies and but we seldom see much of any such thing going on between women (other than the discussion between mother and daughter about the daughter choice of groom) and let alone strangers  unrelated people  let alone bar going. so the spirit is the same and the details are fresh and and i was completely delighted by this. i only saw it once and at a preview showing and attended by the director and a fine speaker and question answerer  he and salman got to be brother like good friends over the making of it and he loves india and he has plans to make a wizard of oz movie in india. i can not get too detailed about songs when i have seen them just once and except to say i liked them all. they range from a happy parody of the bollywood number in the movie within the movie  the ladies costumes and with leghorn hats and seashell cased bodices (it a beach scene) on flowy dresses  are worth the cost of a ticket alone  to a lovely reflective many scened romantic song in a sadder and more serious part of the movie. mix of hindi and english in the music and and it works. salman khan gets a lot of credit from me for openness to unusual projects  this and jaan e mann  and good judgment about which ones to be in. carroll said he was full of suggestions and ideas all along the way and and totally fine (i. e. not narcissistic at all) whether carroll accepted or rejected them  clearly just a pro who loves being involved and collaborating. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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