Pretty Good

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This was a hybrid movie, a very rare kind, more like a cultural crash where east meets west. The movie was all about a young Indian student Harish alias Harry who lives in the United States. When his parents' love marriage broke Harry decides to get marry arranged by his parents and relative like Indian culture. It is a long process, while everything going right direction an American girl fall for him from the very beginning which tumbles his heart. He tries his best to not to fall back to her and what happen next is the rest of the story.The movie was colourful. Music was very good and some tunes were catchy. All in all it was completely a fun movie and sad that many people won't get it. You no need to familiar with both the cultures to understand. The movie was a fun debate between 'love marriage' and 'arranged marriage'. And what wins at the end is to know you should see the movie.Everyone looked awesome in their own way. I thought another Keira Knightley (debuted in 'Bend it like Beckham') is on making after seeing a character played by Theresa. Harry was good like a typical Indian character and so his parents and uncle as well cute Nita. A simple entertainment about cross- culture, good to be watched at once.7/10

When Harry Tries to Marry wants to be like When Harry Met Sally (WHMS) but falls far short. Harish (Harry) is an Indian-born architecture major in Manhattan. Unlike most couples of their generation, his parents' marriage was not arranged, and unlike most of Harry's relatives, they divorced. Mom is an architect in Mumbai; philandering Dad is a fashion photographer in Manhattan whose own fashion sense is West Hollywood 1979. (The actors playing Harry's parents, Tony Mirrcandani and especially Zenobia Shroff, are awful.) Harry is determined to avoid this by having an arranged marriage right after college. Harry calls India "my country," but he has an American accent. One of many loose ends you're left to wonder about.Harry (Rahul Rai) is 22, handsome and likable. His roommate Louis (Osvaldo Hernandez) looks like a young John Leguizamo. Louis seems extremely gay, but although he isn't, their apartment has two beds side by side, is neat as a pin, and glows with pastels no straight guys would choose. Conveniently for the plot, in class one day (which class? We're never told) the instructor asks for students' opinions about marriage. Also conveniently, Harry is chosen, and praises the advantages of arranged marriage "in my country" (see above) in a speech that sounds anything but spontaneous. Theresa (Stefanie Estes, who looks here like a young, blue-eyed Mel Harris) is sitting behind him. Her major happens to be architecture as well, although it's clearly not an architecture class. She is also called on and rambles a bit about love, etc. So the instructor gives the class a written assignment: "Marriage vs Mating." It's a large class, but oddly, only Harry and Theresa are teamed up before the class period ends. So you figure that the paper will be part of the payoff, because there's a LOT of study-grouping for it, but no, it was just a gimmick; once it's served its purpose – giving the main characters a reason to spend time together – it disappears from the plot. (These students don't seem to spend much time on other coursework, or in fact, on any coursework.)Act 2 is supposed to remind us of WHMS but does so only in its clumsy editing contrasted with WHMS. Various combinations of Harry, Louis, Theresa and Theresa's BFF Mary (Caitlin Gold, a real scene-stealer) study or socialize. The transitions are poorly modulated. Louis and Mary have gotten together, you see. So we're utterly perplexed when Louis, right in front of Mary, brings the plot to a screeching halt with a long speech in which his difficulties choosing the right blend of coffee symbolize his ambivalence about commitment. We're even more perplexed when Mary doesn't dump him on the spot, or even seem to take much offense. The comparison with WHMS also fails because in WHMS, Harry wasn't planning his wedding for most of the movie, so Sally's willingness to put up with his idiosyncrasies was more believable. Act 2 also supplies some contrived confrontations that add little or nothing to the plot.Meanwhile, Harry agrees to the very first candidate: Nita Shah (Freishia Bomanbehram). Wow, she's gorgeous, and wow, an architecture student too, only in India. Harry does most of the "arranging" himself because at first his parents won't help. His father wisely tells him to drop the whole idea and "live a little." But Harry's architect mother suddenly comes to favor Harry's marriage when she learns that Nita is the daughter of the municipal official who grants building permits; however, her attempts to curry favor with Mr. Shah are received with frigid disdain. This is slightly funny.Theresa is clearly falling for Harry despite his thoughtless cruelty as he shares his marriage plans with her. Harry is clearly distracted by Theresa's sexiness, but is too self-involved to notice her or his own feelings. Scene follows scene with Theresa annoyingly running hot-cold- hot-cold. For heaven's sake, girl, fish or cut bait! And Harry, you idiot, forget about Nita halfway around the world and pay attention to Theresa right in front of you! Of course, that's the whole plot, isn't it? It's undeniable that people often do things they themselves can't understand or explain, but this is ridiculous.Act 3: College graduation (usually a big deal in a person's life, no?) passes without a moment of screen time, and then we're in India for the wedding. The film goes Bollywood, with dancing, eye-popping costumes and colors, soaring boom shots, and whiny singing. Louis, Theresa and Mary have come with Harry. Did they pay their own way or did Harry pay? Why would Theresa subject herself to this? Especially if she had to pay for her ticket? Well, the plot requires Theresa to come so that Nita can talk with her and immediately see that Theresa loves Harry, but Nita wants to marry him anyway – right up to the outdoor seaside ceremony where Harry just can't go through with it. But it's OKAY! Nita UNDERSTANDS! SHE was rushed into it by her parents! Mr. Shah is, to say the least, displeased with Harry and chases him; they both run off a wooden dock and into the ocean, and then of course everyone either falls or is pushed in. In their ornate traditional Hindu wedding outfits. The action is laughably unconvincingly staged.Epilogue: Harry and the other three go back to the States and Harry DOESN'T marry Theresa; instead, they're good friends (with benefits? They're not telling) who spend time together while Harry "lives a little" and learns more about himself and what he really wants. That's okay, but getting there was way too much of a slog.

This was a sweet charming romantic-comedy and very easy to watch with the family. We saw it in Kew Gardens, and thought that the cinematography, soundtrack and casting were so lively and fresh. The film deals with the whole cross-cultural marriage issue in a very fun and light-hearted way, and it's quite an easy, breezy watch.I just bought the soundtrack (Sarah Sharp's voice is amazing and the Indian music was really catchy - isn't it always?) I'm hoping they release the DVD before Christmas. It's one of those films that actually manages to keep a smile on your face the whole time and a perfect gift for friends who are cross-cultural couples.My husband and I are planning a trip to India after seeing this movie!

It's a great movie for teens, young adults and anyone young at heart who wants to see a fun romantic comedy. This movie is wonderful because it gives a chance to new comers and allows them to show their talent on the big screen. Now a days, movies on the big screen use the same actors and actresses until we are all tired of watching them. This is a fresh movie which is written by new comers, directed by a new comer and acted by new comers. It shows that a dream with hard work and persistence can come true. I applaud all the people involved in making this movie. It is another example of how this country is great and anyone can make their dreams come true. Go see it.