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Marigold (2007 film)
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Marigold is a 2007 romantic
musical
comedy
about an American actress who becomes engrossed in the Bollywood
film industry after visiting India
. Director Willard Carroll
intended the film to bridge "the gap between Indian and American cinema."
), an American actress who gets stranded in Goa
and lands a minor role in a Bollywood
musical
. She meets Prem Rajput (Salman Khan
), the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences Bollywood firsthand.
She arrives in India
after a stressful plane flight, feeling under-appreciated. Others have the tendency to feel offended by her behavior, and she is struggling in her relationship with her boyfriend Barry, whom she eventually decides to leave behind after she meets Prem. The film she came to be in turns out to be cancelled, but after making the acquaintance of one of the women who was to have worked on the film she winds up on the set of a musical, where she meets Prem. After first going on a date with a spoiled young actor and refusing his indecent offer, she winds up talking with Prem. The director writes her into the film, and she lies about her ability to dance. Prem teaches her to dance at a nightclub. Over the next few days, as he shows her the nearby towns and countryside, their friendship deepens into love. After Prem talks to her about how important family is, she asks about his, and learns that he actually has a strained relationship with his father. He had not seen his family in three years, but the day before, he received a phone call from his younger sister, asking him to come home for her wedding. He asks Marigold to go home with him to Jodhpur,Rajasthan, for the wedding, since shooting on the movie had been shut down for a week. While at his parents house, she learns that he is meant to marry another. He doesn't love the girl, but neglected to mention any of this to Marigold. Meanwhile, Barry turns up, looking for her, and she decides to return to the United States. In the end, Prem's father agrees to let him marry for love, and Prem is surprised to find Marigold beneath the veil after the wedding.
Composer Graeme Revell
augmented the songs with a Western (and in one case an Indian) sound and ended up striking an overall balance between the two. Carroll decided that some of the songs should be in Hindi.
CGI effects were used to create most of the white Taj Mahal (there were some set pieces built) and all of the mirroring black structure.
Box Office
flop
with some attributing its failure to the plot, which was similar to numerous Bollywood films that had been produced since 1970. Some felt that the movie was adaquately promoted in the United States. Despite the film's poor performance, some western critics gave the film positive reviews.
while the lyrics are penned by Javed Akhtar
.
Romantic comedy film
Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...
musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
about an American actress who becomes engrossed in the Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
film industry after visiting India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. Director Willard Carroll
Willard Carroll
Willard Carroll is an American film producer, writer, and director. He was executive producer of The Brave Little Toaster series, writing the screenplays for The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars...
intended the film to bridge "the gap between Indian and American cinema."
Synopsis
The film follows the story of Marigold Lexton (Ali LarterAli Larter
Alison Elizabeth "Ali" Larter is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the dual roles of Niki Sanders and Jessica Sanders on the NBC science fiction drama Heroes as well as her guest roles on several television shows in the 1990s.Larter's screen debut came in the 1999 film...
), an American actress who gets stranded in Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
and lands a minor role in a Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
. She meets Prem Rajput (Salman Khan
Salman Khan
Salman Khan is an Indian film actor. He has starred in more than 80 Hindi films.Khan, who made his acting debut with a minor role in the drama Biwi Ho To Aisi with Rekha in a lead role, had his first commercial success with the blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya , for which he won a Filmfare Award for...
), the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences Bollywood firsthand.
She arrives in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
after a stressful plane flight, feeling under-appreciated. Others have the tendency to feel offended by her behavior, and she is struggling in her relationship with her boyfriend Barry, whom she eventually decides to leave behind after she meets Prem. The film she came to be in turns out to be cancelled, but after making the acquaintance of one of the women who was to have worked on the film she winds up on the set of a musical, where she meets Prem. After first going on a date with a spoiled young actor and refusing his indecent offer, she winds up talking with Prem. The director writes her into the film, and she lies about her ability to dance. Prem teaches her to dance at a nightclub. Over the next few days, as he shows her the nearby towns and countryside, their friendship deepens into love. After Prem talks to her about how important family is, she asks about his, and learns that he actually has a strained relationship with his father. He had not seen his family in three years, but the day before, he received a phone call from his younger sister, asking him to come home for her wedding. He asks Marigold to go home with him to Jodhpur,Rajasthan, for the wedding, since shooting on the movie had been shut down for a week. While at his parents house, she learns that he is meant to marry another. He doesn't love the girl, but neglected to mention any of this to Marigold. Meanwhile, Barry turns up, looking for her, and she decides to return to the United States. In the end, Prem's father agrees to let him marry for love, and Prem is surprised to find Marigold beneath the veil after the wedding.
Cast
- Salman KhanSalman KhanSalman Khan is an Indian film actor. He has starred in more than 80 Hindi films.Khan, who made his acting debut with a minor role in the drama Biwi Ho To Aisi with Rekha in a lead role, had his first commercial success with the blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya , for which he won a Filmfare Award for...
... Prem - Ali LarterAli LarterAlison Elizabeth "Ali" Larter is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the dual roles of Niki Sanders and Jessica Sanders on the NBC science fiction drama Heroes as well as her guest roles on several television shows in the 1990s.Larter's screen debut came in the 1999 film...
... Marigold Lexton - Nandana SenNandana Sen-Early life:Sen was born in Kolkata, West Bengal to a Bengali Hindu family. She is the daughter of Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri winner Nabanita Dev Sen, one of the most prominent authors in the contemporary Bengali literature....
... Jaanvi - Ian Bohen ... Barry
- Shari Watson ... Doreen
- Helen Richardson
- Vikas Bhalla
- Suchitra Pillai ... Rani
- Vijayendra Ghatge
- Roopak Saluja ... Mani
- Kiran Juneja
- Gulshan GroverGulshan GroverGulshan Grover is an Indian actor, who has acted in over 400 films through a career spanning over 30 years.Gulshan Grover is one of the first Indian actors to have made a successful transition from Bollywood into Hollywood and international Cinema....
. . . Vikaram - Rakesh Bedi ... Manoj
- Marc Allen Lewis ... Marc
- Lea Moreno YoungLea Moreno YoungLea Moreno Young is an American actress.- Filmography :-External links:...
... Valjean - Catherine FulopCatherine FulopCatherine Amanda Fulop García is a Venezuelan actress, model and television presenter with both Venezuelan and Argentine citizenship. She participated in the Miss Venezuela 1986, finishing as the fourth runner–up...
... Sister Fernandéz
Production
While in India, Carroll had seen a Bollywood film (with Bhulbhal Khan), and, after seeing 150 such films, he hired Larter (whom he had worked with before) and Khan to be in a "crossover" film (although Carroll says he dislikes the term and prefers the idea of an "international audience"). Larter said that the her role in the film, to some degree, mirrored her life at the time. Larter lacked professional dance training and worked with a choreographer to prepare for the filming. One of the songs features her own singing.Composer Graeme Revell
Graeme Revell
Graeme Revell is a New Zealand film score composer.Revell attended Auckland Grammar School, where he finished his final year in 7A...
augmented the songs with a Western (and in one case an Indian) sound and ended up striking an overall balance between the two. Carroll decided that some of the songs should be in Hindi.
CGI effects were used to create most of the white Taj Mahal (there were some set pieces built) and all of the mirroring black structure.
Reception
Marigold was a BollywoodBollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
Box Office
Box office
A box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through an unblocked hole through a wall or window, or at a wicket....
flop
Failure
Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic...
with some attributing its failure to the plot, which was similar to numerous Bollywood films that had been produced since 1970. Some felt that the movie was adaquately promoted in the United States. Despite the film's poor performance, some western critics gave the film positive reviews.
Soundtrack
The music of the film is composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-LoyShankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy are an Indian musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. Record producers, musicians and multi-instrumentalists, they have composed music for over fifty soundtrack across four languages...
while the lyrics are penned by Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed...
.
Filming locations
- GoaGoaGoa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
, India - JodhpurJodhpurJodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...
, RajasthanRajasthanRājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, India - Khimsar, RajasthanRajasthanRājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, India - MumbaiMumbaiMumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, MaharashtraMaharashtraMaharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
, India - RajasthanRajasthanRājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
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External links
- Official movie site (Marigold: An Adventure In India)
- Production site (Hyperion Pictures)
- Marigold at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Marigold Movie Review