MUMBAI: Hollywood's here to make a $10 million Bollywood musical. AndMarigold has romance, comedy, songs, dance sequences — the works.
The story in brief: An American heroine comes to India to work in a low-budget film, and falls in love with the choreographer, played by Salman Khan. Inspired by a stay in Chennai, American writer-director Willard Carroll hit on the idea of making an English-language love story that incorporated the energy, color, lavish song-and-dance numbers, and old-fashion melodrama. As a genre, Bollywood is renowned for featuring some of the more beautiful actresses on earth, so it's a socio-cultural curiosity that "Marigold" has a fair-haired heroine who casts such a potent spell on all those around her. Is it a taste for the strange on the part of the Indian male? Or presumption on the part of the filmmakers? That the very American-looking Larter should become such an exotic creature when taken off her usual turf is something to reflect on.
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