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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Lorraine Senna
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Actors:
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Noureen DeWulf,
Namrata Singh Gujral,
Morgan Brittany,
Tony Yalda,
Matt Carmody,
Jean Carol,
Deep Katdare,
Emily Kosloski,
Cindy Lu,
Helena Mattsson,
Brad Raider,
Erin Hershey,
Ajay Mehta,
Robert M. Rey,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
Traber Burns,
Channing Chase,
Lenora Chu,
Jasmine Singh Cooper,
Jay Ferguson,
Rachel Ferrara,
Natasha Gill,
Nicki Gill,
Victoria Kelleher,
Grey McIntosh,
Lilly Melgar,
Michael Otis,
Beau Bridges,
RonReaco Lee,
Phillip Rhys,
Wil Wheaton,
Shaheen Khan
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Duration:
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91 min.
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Rating:
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(4.3/10)88
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Plot Summary:
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Punjabi-speaking Shalini Singh Gujral lives a mid-section-classed lifestyle in the Himalayan region in India along with her mom, Kirat; dad, Jaspal; companion, Euphoric; and sister, Littly, and was engaged to Neil Brar as a child. Years later Neil re-locates to the United States of America, and there is no contact between him and the Gujral family but Shalini hopes to marry and real with him eventually. When pressure is applied on her due to Littly's time to come confederation, she travels to California, where Neil is reportedly employed with Cantect, an agency that recruits aspiring Hollywoo... d artistes. To her stun she finds him in the arms of a blonde named Nicole, and he refuses to have to do anything with her, remain solely marry her. She is then befriended by means of Robert Shorwell, a Caucasian manly and co-working man of Neil, who offers to Americanize her so that she can win repudiate Neil, to which she agrees but writes to her ancestors in India that all is well with her and Neil. Robert, and his girl, Blaine, successfully change Shailini to an a much more acceptable female of Hispanic creation, re-name her Shelley Picante, and prepare her to woo and bag back Neil. Before she could even begin to do that the Gujrals get somewhere in California - not only throwing her plans and her life in chaos - but also exposing Robert's secret agenda repayment for Americanizing her.
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Americanizing Shelley
John AndersonA Punjabi Pygmalion, director Lorraine Senna's Americanizing Shelley is a sweet-natured, often charming twist on the assimilation comedy, the Ugly Ducking story, even Cyrano de Bergerac -- even if it's recycled/tortured into narrative existence. Although she makes fun of Bollywood conventions, screenwriter and star Namrata Singh Gujral will probably find her most appreciative aud among young Indian moviegoers who want something outside the arthouse.
Some might take exception to the Americanizing of the title, a process which apparently means making a nice, shy, sari-wearing, pigtailed Sikh girl in Chicken Little glasses comfortable dressing like a hooker. But this is a Hollywood story as much as it's anything else: Shalini (Gujral), soon to be transformed...
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