I loved it. I was raised Punjabi, so the kinds of thing that Parminder (I forget her character’s name)'s mum would say were hilarious.
And, I need not say that Parminder is quite the stunner…
Actually, aloo gobi is really, really icky, especially to western palates. It’s right up there with boarding school custard and anchovy pizza for “nastiest flavor ever”.
I caught wind of BiLB from rave reviews on the UK sites I frequent. I made a point to see it when it came to the states and was not disappointed. Yeah, it’s kinda “Bolly/Hollywood” but it’s still entertaining. And it doesn’t hurt that Jonathan Rhys Meyers is in it.
He is so freaking hot.
I was glad to see Rhys Meyers in a more “normal” role. The press has been treating him as a potential “next big thing” for years now, and I think he’s talented and good-looking enough to deserve it, but he always seems to wind up playing a lunatic and/or drug addict…and ususally in period pieces at that! Not much hope of mainstream recognition if you become typecast as a Victorian opium fiend.
I hope we’ll be seeing more of Parminder Nagra in movies too after E.R. completes its run.
Nonsense. Did most Americans know what “Shrek” was before the movie came out? Did they understand the phrase “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”? If they knew what “Pulp Fiction” meant, why did Tarentino have to put a definition of the term in the film? Did the have any idea who Schindler was before the movie came out?
The movie actually did pretty well in the box office: $32M in the US and $42M non-US. People went to see it.
It wasn’t a blockbuster simply because in order to have a blockbuster these days you need to get people to see a film over and over in the theaters. And the two audiences that create blockbusters are teenaged boys (most of the time) and teenaged girls (occasionally, like with Titanic).
I saw it in the theater because everything indicated it would be a good movie. I don’t give a rat’s ass what the subject matter of a film is – if it’s a good one, I’ll see it, no matter what the subject.