The film adaptation was over-ambitious, poorly structured and too long. The novel's plot is crammed into a runtime of over two minutes, and we are left with very little character developing emotional material.
As a result of this failure to capture human emotional interest, and exacerbated by the runtime, the film becomes little more than tedium.
The credibility of the screenplay I found surprisingly good to begin with, the cultural nuances were accurate and deftly demonstrated throughout - however the film lost every ounce of respect earned at the hotel scene after Gogol's wedding: the dancing in the hotel room... what was the purpose of that?!
Unbelievable that a screenplay so credible as this one up to that point would descend into (undoubtedly) American moviegoing crowd pleasing by shoehorning some stupid bollywood-style dance scene in. Whoever decided that would be a good idea should be shot on sight, for ruining an otherwise passable film.
The film adaptation was over-ambitious, poorly structured and too long. The novel's plot is crammed into a runtime of over two minutes, and we are left with very little character developing emotional material.
As a result of this failure to capture human emotional interest, and exacerbated by the runtime, the film becomes little more than tedium.
The credibility of the screenplay I found surprisingly good to begin with, the cultural nuances were accurate and deftly demonstrated throughout - however the film lost every ounce of respect earned at the hotel scene after Gogol's wedding: the dancing in the hotel room... what was the purpose of that?!
Unbelievable that a screenplay so credible as this one up to that point would descend into (undoubtedly) American moviegoing crowd pleasing by shoehorning some stupid bollywood-style dance scene in. Whoever decided that would be a good idea should be shot on sight, for ruining an otherwise passable film.