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What was good about Bollywood Hollywood was that it was different. What was bad about Bollywood Hollywood was that it wasn�t different. A new genre Hinglish film with an underlying attitude of spoofing Bollywood. Good to watch, but not memorable, though the promos sure made audiences run to the halls.
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A star in my rating is dedicated to Lisa Ray who was simply brilliant and came across so powerfully in her role of a young woman searching for herself while rebelling against her parents and then falling in love along the way. The second star is dedicated to the one-liners at the bottom of the screen, which I found absolutely delightful. Everyone was given a short crisp song. The songs by the way were rather nice. And the final star is dedicated to Dina Pathak. Her Shakespeare and numerous other quotations were uplifting to say the least.
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So what went wrong? A lighthearted film poking some light hearted fun at life. It should be fine, right? Not quite. First off, Rockini was terribly out of place and just not essential to the plot. Secondly the mother telling her son that his sister wouldn�t get married if he didn�t get engaged didn�t really hold too much water as a good reason. Thirdly, the brother had a rather short and abrupt role, which seemed to be put in only to convey the message that sometimes outsiders can help out where family can�t. And finally the bar scene was so predicatable as were the events after it that it was a bit of a dampner in the end.
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What remains to be pointed out was that the objective of the film was largely achieved, it well liked and talked about by most and a really good job was done by the entire cast.
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