Product Description

When people from a culture largely defined by bollywood find themselves in an environment that is saturated with hollywood the result is a state of mind that celebrates these two seemingly disparate worlds. Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 11/08/2005 Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Pg13

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29558 in DVD
• Brand: Hollywood
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Hindi, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 5.50" h x .50" w x 7.50" l, .31 pounds
• Running time: 105 minutes

Amazon.com
Bollywood Hollywood is a delightful, cross-cultural parody of both India's and America's musical film traditions. Directed by Deepa Mehta (Earth), Bollywood Hollywood concerns the desperate effort of wealthy businessman Rahul (Rahul Khanna) to get his mother and grandmother off his back when it comes to his romantic life. In love with a white pop-star girlfriend (Jessica Paré), Rahul's fortunes change when she dies. Still grieving, he is told by his mother that Rahul's only sister won't be allowed to marry until he finds a nice Indian girl to wed. The solution: hire a beautiful, dark-skinned, allegedly Spanish escort named Sue (Lisa Ray) to pose as his Indian fiancée. With tongue firmly planted in cheek, Mehta pokes fun at a number of Bollywood cinema clichés, especially that familiar mix of modern luxury and old world traditions, melodramas involving the saddest of character backstories, and spontaneous musical numbers that remind one as much of Hollywood's Golden Age as Bollywood's current one. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

great great
this film not only is a spoof of our beloved bollywood, but also holds many other humerous twists in it. It follows the lives of a conservative indian family, with not so conservative second generation. the music is also kick!

Excellent/Amateur
A really interesting movie, there's not anything like it (movies like Pardes are pure Bollywood, aimed at a native audience). The acting was generally terrible and the movie was often amateurish - the opening titles looked cribbed from a kid's video project, for instance. Sometimes it was difficult to tell if the jokes were really that bad, or if the cast's utter lack of timing ruined them. The plot is charming but instantly predictable.

Then at other times, the movie's great - I liked the idea of people viewing themselves in terms of movies. And, combining a Hollywood movie and a Bollywood movie to poke fun and enjoy the cliches of each is such a great idea that I fully expect to see more movies doing that. Lisa Ray is attractive (and supposedly making the transition to Bollywood). Akshaye Khanna is really cool in a dance sequence. It's paced smoothly and has the bright colors and fun songs that help define Bollywood. So despite its large faults, it's still a fun movie worth watching.

Bollywood takeoff on "Pretty Woman" and movies themselves...
Don't take it too seriously. This nonsensical parody has a lot of the trappings of my favorite Bollywood films: sense of humor, twisted plot, overacting, bright colors and fun music. Yet, somehow Bollywood-Hollywood loses me. I could barely finish the film, but kept replaying "Bride and Prejudice" (the first Bollywood film I saw) over and over again like a kid with their first Disney film.