After Hindu-Canadian Rahul Khanna's caucasian rockstar-girlfriend Jessica Pare dies in a freak
accident, his family demands, that he will now choose a traditional
Hindu girl to marry. Unwilling to do so but equally unwilling to
disappoint his mother & grandmother, he enlists the services of Lisa
Ray - who he believes to be Hispanic - as his Hindu wife-to-be - at
least during his sister Rishma Malik's wedding festivities. First, while
he, along with his secretly cross-dressing driver Ranjit Chowdhry,
trains her to be the perfect Hindu girl, they seem the perfectly
antagonistic couple, but as soon as the festivites start (& this
wedding, in truest Hindu tradition, goes on for quite some days), they of
course fall in love with each other, & she of course is a Hindu
girl after all, & after a few complications, he proposes to her,
bringing the formerly independent & cosmopolitan woman back into the
folds of the Hindu-family. This is supposed to be a happy ending,
actually. I wonder ...
Even though this film tries hard to incorporate some Hindu style -
not only in form of the actors - into the proceedings, it's actually a
rather blatant rip-off of Pretty Woman - & this movie was not
all that original to begin with, & certainly below most Indian
romantic comedies. Some weak song-&-dance routines, every person
rather endlessly shouting out titles of Indian movies & a
Bollywood-movie running on television in almost every other scene are
there to suggest it's a take on Bollywood-movies too, but it does this
with so little subtlety that it insults Indian cinema rather than paying
homage to it. & the song-&-dance routines are done with so
little style & bad dancers one wonders why they bothered - all this
is not helped by clips from real Indian song-&-dance routines that
are far superior. Also, Rahul Khanna as the lead is rather bland
& uninvolving. Having said that, the movie wouldn't have fared much
better with a better lead & better dancers, it would still just be
essentially another formula-driven romantic comedy, a bad rip-off of an
already bad film (aforementioned Pretty Woman)
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