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Basmati Blues is a 2017 American romantic comedy musical film, directed by Danny Baron, in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Baron and Jeff Dorchen. It stars Brie Larson and Utkarsh Ambudkar in lead roles with Scott Bakula, Donald Sutherland and Tyne Daly in major supporting roles. The film was released in a limited release and through ...
Feb 9, 2018 · To blast this movie as a “white savior narrative,” as many did when the recent trailer dropped, is to kill a moth with a flamethrower. It’s an amiable misfire. But Brie Larson sure can light up the screen, and she does so here—she’s a pleasant singer, too—and that’s enough to raise this from a one-and-a-half star movie to a two.
Feb 6, 2018 · The most Bollywood Basmati Blues gets is a romantic duet sung ... Perhaps this characterization is meant as inoculation from accusations that in creating Basmati Blues, they have sought to ...
May 14, 2018 · Mostly filmed in 2013 but unreleased until 2017 (the year after Larson’s Oscar win for Room), Basmati Blues is a real oddity. It’s partly a satire on US agribusiness, partly a romantic comedy, and, most bizarrely of all, a musical. Given the setting, you would expect the songs to have a Bollywood flavour yet they are singularly lacking in ...
Feb 8, 2018 · Feb. 8, 2018 12:30 PM PT. Bollywood meets “La La Land,” not in a fortuitous way, via “Basmati Blues,” a broadly played though vibrantly photographed musical romantic-comedy that fails to ...
Jan 27, 2018 · Basmati Blues, 2017. Directed by Dan Baron. Starring Brie Larson, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Saahil Sehgal, Scott Bakula, Tyne Daly, Lakshmi Manchu, and Donald Sutherland. SYNOPSIS: A brilliant scientist ...
Basmati Blues is, superficially, a simple, Americanized version of a Bollywood romantic comedy. It contains the usual elaborate song & dance numbers, many of them adapted to a Western audience, sometimes rather cleverly; and a fairly typical plot of a developing romance between two seemingly different and incompatible people who eventually find a way to be together.
