Heather Graham,
Marisa Tomei,
Jimi Mistry,
Michael McKean,
Christine Baranski
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A visitor from the mysterious East arrives in New York -- not to offer the wisdom of the ages, but to make it big as a dancer in this "fish-out-of-water" comedy. Ramu Chandra Gupta (Jimi Mistry) grew ... read more
Directed by: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Release Date: January 31, 2002
DVD Release Date: June 3, 2003
Stats: 655 reviews
The film lacks any big laughs and you'll probably forget you saw it an hour later. It has its moments and its sweet but is let down because of its water thin plot and lack of anything we haven't seen before.
I like Jimi Mistry a lot but I found this to be disappointing really. Starts off great but soon becomes tiresome.
very funny jimi mistry is just hilarious! Funny to think he was in eastenders not so long ago lol
Starts well and is really funny with a self-effacing look at Indians in the US, and by the half-way mark I was loving it, then it gives up and focusses on a love story and there's a desperate rush to stop a wedding (which is nearly as bad as running to the airport), then they get... read more
I watch the movie on DVD before and i love it, and watch it again today and still love it, coz it is funny, and yeah something about the movie is real, i mean in real life is hapenning.
This is a very FUNNY movie and I like it a lot. I like it that they experiment with Indian culture and American culture and the magic is awesome!
Devoid of life, intelligence, humor, and anything else that could entertain even the most undemanding viewer, this film is a perfect example of something that should have been shipped to landfills, no... Full Review
A precipitous comedic falloff in the third quarter earns the film a qualified recommendation at best.
A trifle, a silly one at that, but it's a charming trifle that's hard to resist. Full Review
The movie offers up too many airy spiritual lessons in the hope of crossing from farce to sentiment. Full Review
A mixed-up masala saved only partly by a charismatic cast. Full Review
A joyous genre-blender guaranteed to crank up your karma.
It's as if somebody dropped three bad scripts on the floor of a production office, and somebody else picked up the pages in random order and said, 'Let's make a movie out of this! And let's get Heathe... Full Review
Works better than it probably should thanks mainly to a ready-for -anything lead performance by the ridiculously charismatic Jimi Mistry and equally game performances from an amusing supporting cast i...
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