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| MARIGOLD |
| Starring: |
Salman
Khan, Ali Larter, Nandana
Sen, Helen, Suchitra Pillai, Gulshan
Grover |
| Directer: |
Willard
Carroll |
| Music: |
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy |
Lyrics: |
Javed
Akhtar |
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| Marigold
A Blend of Hollywood and Bollywood |
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film Marigold has Hollywood turning east to
Bollywood, the movie with a large dose of songs in
Hindi and English and dances choreographed by
Remo. Hollywood director Willard Carroll loves
mainstream Hindi cinema, and not just as an
American tourist gazing down at exotica. So
Carroll did the shooting in Rajasthan for Marigold
starring Salman Khan and Ali Larter.
Alison (Ali) Larter, star of New Line’s $200
million-grossing Final Destination franchise, will
play the title role in Marigold, An Adventure Of
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| Marigold
is a traditional love triangle, and pays tribute
to the great Bollywood dream, similar to Hum Dil
De Chuke Sanam Carroll's confessed favourite film.
The
story about the developing romance between an
Indian choreographer Prem (Salman Khan), and an
American actress Marigold (Ali Larter) plus the
added complication Prems Indian lover Jahnvi
(Nandana Sen) further complicated by Jahnvis
interest in yet another American.
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The
film, therefore deals with two cross-cultural
relationships interwoven with Bollywood song and dance.
In
a departure from Gurinder Chadha's Bride &
Prejudice, which adapted a similar format, kept itself
separated from the cultural conventions and formulas of
mainstream Hindi cinema, in this case Marigold confronts
the lot.
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Carroll
unashamedly embraces the Bollywood formula, following
the Bollywood conventions more closely and intimately
than most of Bollywood own directors, with song and
dance tradition second to no Hindi movie.
Carroll
also seems to have hit on a stunning combination with
Sen and Larter, as the on screen chemistry works and
without the rivalry that is often apparent when two
Indian actresses work together.
Bradley
maintains that Marigold’s concept received a strong
response from distributors at the recent American Film
Market. “People love this character and the story’s
sense of romantic destiny and fish-out-of-water
comedy,” Sidhartha M Jain, Vice President-Hyperion and
Executive Producer informed. “In the beginning
Marigold approaches the Indian way of doing things with
scepticism, but then she’s won over by the country’s
Great Spirit and sense of joy—qualities personified by
Salman’s character.”
There’s
good news for Salman fans in the heartland of India. The
film will be released at metros in English language, but
the dubbed Hindi version will hit the screens
concurrently, so as to reach out to a wider section of
viewers in India. India’s most successful song-writing
team, Shankar-Essan-Loy (Dil Chahta Hai), have composed
seven original songs, with lyrics by L.A. pop icon Shari
'Truth Hurts' Watson whose cross-cultural mix of
hip-hop-meets-Bollywood, Addictive, was one of the past
year’s biggest dance hits. The Indian movie industry
sees Marigold as the opportunity to present a positive
view of Bollywood to the West. Will this movie also
prove to be Salman Khans step on the ladder into
mainstream Hollywood and an international career,
although the man himself is being very sanguine about
matters.
Will
the pairing of the stunningly beautiful Ali Larter and
Salman Khan prove a better match than Aishwarya Rai and
Martin Henderson in previous attempt to instil Bolly in
Holly, Bride & Prejudice is to be seen soon.
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