Behind the Larter
Ali Larter, now a megastar, acted opposite a desi brother before she found Sendhil Ramamurthy tending to her character’s husband DL in Heroes.
I caught the trailer for Marigold the other day (available at the official site). It looks poor, but I am biased against any film with a synopsis like this one.
Marigold is an American actress that arrives in India for a Hollywood flick called Kama Sutra 3, finds her luggage is lost and her toilet is a hole. She bags a small role in a Bollymovie to earn the money to get home, but cannae dance. She enlists help and falls for the choreographer, a prince called Prem (Salman Khan). But wait! Marigold’s boyfriend turns up randomly and Salman Khan is going to get married to Amartya Sen’s daughter!
I was a little surprised to learn the writer and director is an American fella called Willard Carroll who “watched more than 100 Indian movies on DVD” and wanted to recreate the magic. His impressive resumé as producer includes The Brave Little Toaster, The Adventures of Hyperman and Mother Goose: A rappin’ an a rhymin’ special. Marigold wrapped about two years ago.
Although if I am tricked into watching this movie by a brave toaster or hyperman, I will thank Willard for one thing. In respsonse to Salman Khan’s insistence that he “will do anything but not lock lips with Larter”, Carroll said Marigold has a no-shirt-removal clause. The music might be promising, with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Javed Akhtar behind things. And Truth Hurts, groan. There’s a cool song with a completed black Taj Mahal as a backdrop.
Brande Roderick’s adventure in India and the last time a Western director tried to recreate the magic. Unfortunate episodes.
on Friday, August 17th, 2007, 2:33 pm in Film › 
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I saw the trailer on TV (Namaste America) last week and it looked like some regular hyper melodramatic Hindi movie, but going by the synopsis you posted, it might end up being an unintentional comedy!! The program also had an interview with Ali Larter-she gushed how she was really good freinds with Sallu Bhai and how the latter is the most chivalarous guy on earth :).
Ooh and she’s a mega-star? I know her only from Heroes and i guess she featured in Legally Blonde too-am i missing out on some of her super-stardom :).
Yeah OK maybe megastar’s a bit generous. I am more obsessed with Heroes than the average human, so perhaps I overstated her stardom!
Although…she is number 6 in the Maxim Sexiest 100 women this year!
Marigold’s director threatened my homey Aseem Chhabra (a la “you’ll never play in this town again!”), a drama that may prove more interesting than the movie itself.
The coming of a fresh crop of magic negros, the mowgli’s for the new millenium.
He falls to his knees. Throws his head back. The vein on his neck pulses to the growing rumble in his throat and a shudder shakes him from his tailbone to his fingertips as he unleashes a roar to the heavens, “My kingdom! For a Harold and Kumar trilogy!”.
Which is worse, the magical native informant or that the wise man is supposed to be Salman Khan? At least bring on an Amitabh or an Aamir!
I saw the godawful trailer, and every time this guy pursed his lips, simpered and cooed into the camera, I got this nasty itch all over. Must be my skin crawling. I’m basically a giant red scab right now - cant type any frther. hurts - too - much.
Salman Khan has always (and by always I mean in the past five minutes now that I’ve thought about it) struck me as rather smarmy.
he he tamasha - he is pretty smarmy, almost nauseatingly so sometimes.
i saw the trailers and i swear i couldn’t make out a single word of what salman was saying. i know he speaks english perfectly well, but he seemed to be speaking really softly, almost mumbling. btw, is it just me, or does he speak english with an accent that is ultra-american - it always throws me off.
also, rediff says ali larter is not pretty enough to play the role in this movie - ha ha!
Wait a minute. I just arrived in India, and my luggage got lost and my toilet, while not a hole, doesn’t have a flush handle (I have to reach into the water tank to pull on the little plastic thing).
So… does that mean I could be a Bollywood film star and dance with Salman too???