By ApunKaChoice Bureau Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com
‘Bollywood Hollywood’ captures the audience interest despite the red herrings and loose ends in the script. The dialogues in the film are witty and replete with funny oneliners and puns.
The
humor in the movie is not jagged and non-sensical (as is typical of many Bollywood movies). The comedy is situational and interspersed evenly throughout the plot.
Deepa Mehta has taken an oft-repeated story – of a guy hiring the services of a girl to pose as her lover and wife-to-be – and presented it in a new way on screen, bringing about a nice and delectable blend of Bollywood kitsch with Hollywood style of moviemaking.
Acting performances by the film’s leading cast is superb. Particularly, impressive is Lisa Ray who made her Bollywood debut with a low-key performance in Vikram Bhatt’s Kasoor.
Lisa seems to have a natural flair for comedy and a knack to tickle the funny bone. Moreover, she has grooved perfectly into the role that is pretty much close to her real self.
Rahul Seth too deliver goods playing the ‘half-confused, half-assured’ young man who gradually falls in love with a girl who ‘detests’ the Indian men as ‘chumps’.
All in all, ‘Bollywood Hollywood’ is a film that will bring a broad smile to faces, even the brooding ones.
