{"id":13741,"date":"2023-01-31T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canfilmday.ca\/film\/bollywood-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:36:22","slug":"bollywood-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/canfilmday.ca\/film\/bollywood-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood\/Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"
Set in Toronto and its wealthier suburbs, Bollywood\/Hollywood <\/i>joyfully subverts the romantic conventions of both cultures. Rahul (Khanna), a rich South Asian-Canadian dot-com entrepreneur, is pressured by his mother (Chatterjee) and grandmother to find a nice Hindu girl to accompany him to his sister\u2019s (Malik\u2019s) elaborate wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n
As a joking way of accommodating them, he hires Sue (Ray), a beautiful escort girl, to pretend to be his fianc\u00e9e. Naturally, the two fall in love, and just as naturally, complications ensue. Incorporating the wild stylistic excesses of Bollywood \u2014 the melodrama, the choreography and the music \u2014 Mehta allows Indian culture and societal attitudes to play out in Toronto.<\/p>\n
\u201cMuch hilarity, joyful song and dance numbers and a surprisingly touching love story.\u201d \u2014 Kevin Laforest, Montreal Film Journal<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n