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Monsoon Wedding (2002)
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"In addition to winning Best Picture (and seven other awards) at the Oscars last week, Slumdog Millionaire passed a major box office benchmark. It has now grossed more than $100 million in the U.S., which is pretty astonishing for a film with one-third of its dialogue in a foreign language. But is Slumdog’s popularity a one-shot in terms of its audience’s interest in India, or are moviegoers actually now more curious about the nation and its own films? Some websites are simplifying the question of whether or not Slumdog will be a gateway film with polls asking if American moviegoers will now “go Bollywood” (40% of Cinematical readers flat out answered, “no.”), which is rather silly since Danny Boyle’s movie bears no resemblance to the majority of Bollywood pictures. In fact, Americans have in the past received far "
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"Danny Boyle’s new crowd-pleasing film Slumdog Millionaire was originally intended to be shot entirely in English, but apparently due to the preferences of a casting director, about a third of the movie is in Hindi. While this fraction may not be enough to call it a foreign-language film, it could have been enough to turn off subtitle-fearing audiences were the movie not so otherwise accessible due to its feel-good, “Hollywood-style” story involving star-crossed romance, destiny and an ultimate “love conquers all” message. Also, the movie breaks free from one off-putting foreign film tradition by following Man on Fire, Night Watch and TV’s Heroes into the realm of non-traditional subtitling. Slumdog received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Awa "
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"There is a great surprise in the heart of The Namesake: that Kal Penn can actually act as something other than a stoner. The movie becomes something a shambling bear by the end, but it has a poignancy that is a hallmark of the assured and gracious hand of director Mira Nair. The movie tells two interwoven stories: that of Ashima (played by Tabu) who follows her husband from warm and supportive India to the Cold and lonely New York City and that of her son, Gogol, who grows up between the world of possibilities that America offers and the world of tradition represented by India. They are both forced to learn how to find the world of support that is around them, but one they have never tapped into before, but their paths are going in different directions. Ashima has to learn the value of independence, while Gogol learns the value of family. One of the saving graces of this movie is the long silences when the characters don’t talk to each other but manage to say everything. From ... "
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