Critic Reviews

• Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter

  Bollywood fans will dismiss the mishmash as the work of an American director 'slumming' in a genre outside his own culture, and Western audiences unfamiliar with Hindi-language masala movies will find the whole thing puzzling.

• Rachel Saltz, New York Times

  [Director] Carroll knows his Bollywood stuff and, refreshingly, doesn't apologize for, or waste time explaining, an industry and a style that most Americans still regard as silly. Instead, he honors them.

• Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

  Rest assured, contrived love will prevail.

• Anil Sinanan, Time Out

  This fluffy cross-cultural experiment smacks of jumping on the Bollywood bandwagon with little insight into the genre it is trying to emulate or understanding of the country in which it's set.

• John Anderson, Newsday

  Amusing diversion.

• Michael Esposito, Chicago Tribune

  If you enjoy such Bollywood-style numbers, try to tune out the movie when the music drops off and you'll enjoy it more.

• Brian Orndorf, DVDTalk.com

  It seems the only thing worse than a faulty culture shock comedy with zero charm is a faulty culture shock comedy with zero charm starring Ali Larter.

• Frank Lovece, Film Journal International

  It's all dizzying, but what a delight.

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  Salman Khan is one of the big names in Bollywood whose appeal continually eludes, and here he simply proves that he is just as much a bafflement in English as he is in Hindi.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  This first co-production between the United States and India starts badly and never recovers.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  a colorful charmer that might even persuade a few skeptics to check out the real thing.

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  Carroll seems to be saying that we should regard Bollywood as a harmless part of Indian culture.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  Ali Larter plays an amazingly bitchy actress sent to Bollywood. They hate her, then they love her. I didn't quite get the love bit.

• Martin Hoyle, Financial Times

  Bollywood cheerfully meets - not Hollywood, exactly, more straight-to-video.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  Goofy and sweet.

• , Sun Online

  It's colourful and pacy and the musical interludes are fun. But, on the whole, Marigold is predictable to the end.

• Julia Raeside, Film4

  As Prem's dad says of his son's feature film career, "I know nothing about dancing and the plots seem ludicrous to me."

• Jaspreet Pandohar, BBC

  Despite boasting bags of colour, energy and top Bollywood actor Salman Khan, this cross cultural concoction falls halfway between the genres.

• Matthew Leyland, Total Film

  A sari attempt to hybridise Hollywood and Bollywood.

• Kat Brown, Empire Magazine

  The final half hour may lose its way but this remains a sassy and endearing romantic effort.

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