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It is obvious that the director hasroached Bollywood from an outsider's perspective. Willard Cardge-nudge wink-wink look at those silly  Boll a tremendous affection and respect for Bollywood while at the same time is bpeople and their clueless antics but a sincere apprption is not helped by the whiff eciation of Bollywood for its vitality, its lack of irony and self-consnemused by its kitschier aspectsamiliarity with Bollywood, you can appreciate what he does here in making a true hybrid of Bollywood and Hollywood movie conventions. From one of the opening shots, a flashback of the Salman character as a child by the sea, talking with his grandmother (played by Helen! - how many Salman movies sck sequence that is incorporated into the movie that Marigold and Prem has been filollywood as well – the fish out of water meets duty-to-one's-family-at the eming, anyone wtart with this same premise?) to the flashbaho has seen enough Bollywood movies will recognize these references. The story itself incorporates tried and true conventions from both Hollywood and Bxpense of personal fulfillment. The structure of the film follows the typical Bollywood plot line of the more comical set up of the first half giving way to a more dramatic resolution of the second. Yet ultimately the sensibility of the film is that of Hollywood, with its understated, wry humor and its story of a woman learning to believe in herself, to reach self-affirmation.
You couldn't have a movie inspired by Bollywood if there weren't any musical numbers and this movie does at are part of the film that is being made, reminiscent of how musical numbers were justified in Busby Berkeley movies as being part of a stage show. Or not disappoint with seven of them. Unlike Bollywood, however, the songs do not pop out of nowhere and transport its characters to a European locale or Goan beach; they exist as musical numbers ththey come out of a situation where music already has a reason to be there – a sexy nightclub scene where Prem teaches Marigold to dance or a beach scene where there are musicians (including a cameo from the playback singer Shaan) performing. All reflect the emotional state of the protagonists at that point in the movie. Often the music will take a conventional song from one genre and put a twist on it from the other. So in one of the highlights of the film where Marigold comes into her own, the song picturazation is fairly typical of its genre – the female star singing and dancing among a line of women – but in this case it's blond Ali Larter looking like a total natural Bollywood film star, emoting and lip synching to the Hindi lyrics with no subtitles.
Also synonymous with Bollywood are sumptuous visuals and Marigold fulfills that aspect beautifully thanks to some of the top talent working in Bollywood today. The cinematograph Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas. You can of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam on this film – in fact, the illuminated floor in one of the numbers was originaller is Anil Mehta who was also the cinematographer for Lagaan and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. The choreographer is Vaibhavi Merchant and production designer is Nitin Desai, both fromy from Dholi Taro Dhol, which coincidentally has an embedded Marigold pattern.

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As for the cast, Carroll obviously has a penchant for spotting acting talent as evidenced by Playing by Heart – one of the first movies for both Angelina Jolie and Ryanne Phillippe. And in this film he again hits the mark with Ali Larter. One of the main reasons the film works is because of Larter. She makes a bitchy, unappealing character sympathetic and her subsequent transformation believable and she is smart, funny, and sexy because she y by poof Princistryis smart and funny. She and Salman share excellent chem

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