The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly & The Beautiful (or ‘Indian palace’ in France)
Sonny: Everything will be all right in the end. So if it is not all right, then it is not yet the end.
Director:
Producer:
Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin
Writer:
Cast:
Judi Dench as Evelyen
Bill Nighy as Douglas
Dev Patel as Sonny
Celia Imrie as Madge
Ronald Pickup as Norman
Maggie Smith as Muriel
Tom Wilkinson as Graham
Penelope Wilton as Jean
Tena Desae as Sunaina
Diana Hardcastle as Carol
Music:
Based on These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach
Story:
A group of British retirees decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self
Review:
This movie is very funny. What a good comedy movie after so long. It has an engaging story albeit predictable premise. This movie is, thankfully, shot in India and not some fake set.
It was strange to Judi Dench playing a kind women who comes to India for retirement, after watching her as M in James Bond movies. I was waiting for her to give some orders to Bond over some super cool tech. The acting was very good. Also Maggie Smith was the best.
The story is evenly divided among the characters. There was a touch of bollywood in the movie with Sonny and Sunaina’s relationship. Strangely even the drivers of ‘Tuk-tuks’ spoke english. The movie was nicely made. The comedy was actually funny and not slapstick.
All in all a funny movie.
Final Verdict:
Super funny. 7.5/10
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