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Acting Badly in Bollywood

October 11th, 2006 · 9 Comments

Pakka NRI Ok. I’ll admit it. I’m one of those desis who only really started watching Hindi films once I came to the US. Before that, I got my dose of Bollywood on the occasional Sunday evening, when Doordarshan screened its weekly movie. And the only reason I really watched them then, was to avoid [...]

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Drugs, Death and Dysfunction: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

October 11th, 2006 · 4 Comments

Grade: B Here’s an interesting recipe. Combine: (1) a failing motivational speaker; (2) his heroin-addicted father; (3) his Nietzche-obsessed step-son; (4) his chubby, prepubescent, Miss America-wannabe daughter; (5) his weary wife; and (6) her brother, a suicidal Proust scholar. Throw them all into a beat-up, banana yellow VW van, get them on the road, and [...]

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