You won't be disappointed!

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Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

I was entertained by watching it but it just didn't flatter me. I don't know why I felt it but that's how I thought when looking at this movie! I thought the fake Indian accents were terrible including Jimi Mistry's fake Canadian accent! If any actors are gonna do accents, then they should be properly be prepared to do it at their auditions. It's just ridiculous and disturbing to hear them. Or they should've just used their own voices, it would make the movie easier to watch!I honestly didn't find the film that brilliant, I'm really just disappointed that this didn't work for me to enjoy!

Nice.And interesting or mixture of different elements. British life style and Muslim rules, image of worlds in the sensitivity of the other, a film legend as wist imaginary friend, gay spice and a mother as clone of Sophia Loren.Weding, confessions, crumbs of past and smart dialog. A comedy without great ambitions or big errors. But, in same time, a kind of experiment. In a global village, the differences are more important than common colors. And this is the basic ingredient. The social/cultural role of everybody. The way to honest speech. And the heavy ,small fears.May be an artificial pledge. Or slice for weekend. But in this case, the aspects are not different. Only the exotic Cary Grant is more seductive.

This trifle of a movie bears more than a passing resemblance to Ang Lee's 1993 "The Wedding Banquet", but it also owes a debt to the Universal Studios romantic comedies of the late 1950's-early 1960's by way of Bollywood. Truer to the spirit of those Doris Day-Rock Hudson concoctions than the far more costly and laborious send-up, Peyton Reed's 2003 "Down With Love", this 2004 indie film has a more contemporary agenda in mind. With his first feature-length film, director Ian Iqbal Rashid uses a narrative device I haven't seen since Herbert Ross's "Play It Again, Sam" - whereas Woody Allen channeled the spirit of Humphrey Bogart in the former film, the gay protagonist here does the same with Cary Grant, apparently his "imaginary" friend since childhood when his mother deserted him temporarily for the excitement of life in London. The movie star provides unsolicited guidance on romantic relationships and the importance of appearing straight in a world hostile to gays.Choosing Grant (over a more predictable gay icon like Rock Hudson) is intriguing in that he was a celebrity surrounded by innuendo about his sexuality. It sounds silly and derivative - and to a great degree, it is - but the movie maintains a sweet tone with surprising shades of resonance toward the latter part of the film. I just wish it could have gone down a more audacious path to match its concept. The story revolves around Alim, a Toronto-raised South Asian who is now living in London with his boyfriend of a year. His mother Nuru comes to visit him unexpectedly in the hopes of prodding him to return to Toronto and marry a nice Indian girl. The problem is that Alim has not come out to his traditional and devout Muslim mother, and he has to decide to either tell her about his situation or risk losing his boyfriend Giles, who has led quite an active social life prior to Alim. The plot machinations at the beginning provide an excuse for broad caricatures and silly predicaments much like the movies to which Rashid is paying tribute, and Nuru is initially your typical guilt-skewering mother. However, the movie takes some interesting turns with Giles and Nuru having an unexpected rendezvous through London and the plot strands coming together at the traditional wedding of Alim's cousin back in Toronto.The cast is variable in quality. Jimi Mistry portrays Alim with genuine vulnerability and palpable angst even if he has an unfortunate habit of looking constipated during his more dramatic moments. Better is Suleka Mathew, who seems too young to be playing Nuru, though she at least gets to play a more complete character arc from a kvetching harpy to supportive mother. As Giles, Kristen Holden-Reid does what he can with a rather bland part. Playing the impossible role of Cary Grant, Kyle MacLachlan is actually quite good if you can get past the fact that Grant is unplayable without a certain sense of parody and impersonation. Aided by a series of wardrobe changes true to Grant's most famous films, MacLachlan actually get the voice down right and certainly has the requisite square jaw, but I wonder if his obtrusive phantom presence should have been supplanted by computer animation or even a voice-over to convey his character's purpose. Brian George, familiar Seinfeld player Babu Bhatt, as Uncle Hassan and Verna Sood as Aunt Dolly provide expert comic support. In spite of the creativity in adapting familiar movie concepts, overall the film feels relatively tepid.

i think that that this movie was really nice. and i loved Alim's mom. i thought it was really understanding of her to accept him for who he was. and i loved Giles. he is so cute and hot!!!! i think that this movie is a movie that people have to see. i isn't hard coming out to your parents. and this movie tells you or i should say shows you how hard it is to come out to your parents when your someone like Alim. Alim character was really nice to. me and my cousin watched this movie together and we were both like all into the movie. the ending was so nice. i don't want to ruin it for you so I'm not going to tell you what happened. but i will tell you that you must watch this movie. it'll make you go," aaaawwwwwwwwwww". thats what we did.