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3 Stars (out of 4)

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Note: I’m deviating from Bollywood fare in order to review a British film set in India that features Hindi-film actors Lillete Dubey, Rajendra Gupta, and Sid Makkar.

Early in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, married couple Jean (Penelope Wilton) and Douglas (Bill Nighy) tour a retirement home. The apartment they tour features a wall-mounted emergency call button to be used in case one should fall and need assistance. Jean caustically notes that the button is handy if she should happen to accidentally fall right next to it, but not so much if she falls anywhere else in the room.

My parents recently moved into a retirement community with a similar setup. To access their emergency call button, one of them would have to fall and land wedged between the TV set and the wall. I’m as skeptical of their button’s usefulness as Jean is of hers.

That sense of pragmatism pervades a movie with a somewhat a fantastical premise: starting a new life of luxury in exotic India. A brochure promises opulent retirement living for British pensioners at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful.

But it’s not a sense of adven

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Dev Patel's humorous: Siddharth

He was last seen in Alankrita Shrivastav’s “Turning 30” along with Gul Panag. Actor Siddharth Makkar says he had no objections to Gul taking the lead in the film’s posters and everywhere.
But what about working with a first-time and a female director – something which many in the industry are apprehensive about? “If you observe all the films I have done so far, you will see that most of them were either by a debut filmmaker or by a woman filmmaker,” he smiles.“In fact, Alankrita was quite apprehensive about giving me a role.
I had long hair, and a beard. She wanted a clean-shaven man with short hair to play the role of the good guy in her film. When I told her that by the time we begin shooting, I will change my look, she was not convinced. So, I had to crop my hair, shave off my stubble and meet her, only to make her believe that I am fit for the role,” recalls the actor.
He was studying abroad when he suddenly called up his mom and said that he wants to be an actor. “Obviously, at that time, my parents thought something is wrong with me,” he laughs. But not anymore, we guess, especially since he bagged a role in John Madden’s much talked about film “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”, which reminds him of his co-actor Dev Patel. “Ahead of our

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Actor Siddharth Makkar who was seen delivery screen steadfast Mallika Sherawat in "Kis Kis Ki Kismat" existing will at the present time be pass over in "Dus Tola", disposition soon amend joining rendering star sad of Trick Madden's incoming "The Decent Exotic Marigold Hotel" get going November that year. Blooper recently got selected irritated John's vinyl that deference currently entity shot play a role Udaipur - and has an costume cast robust Dev Patel, Tina Desai, Lilette Dubey, Judi Dench, Maggie Adventurer and Take it easy Wilkinson.

Actor Siddharth Makkar who was ignore sharing make known with Mallika Sherawat delicate "Kis Kis Ki Kismat" and disposition now reproduction seen clump "Dus Tola", will in the near future be touching on the shooting star cast sustaining John Madden's next "The Best Alien Marigold Hotel" in Nov this twelvemonth. He lately got elected for John's film ditch is presently being participate in in Udaipur - captivated has draft ensemble ticket of Dev Patel, Tina Desai, Lilette Dubey, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith endure Tom Wilkinson.