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everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

The film definitely conveys effectively the message it has intended to..It questions the society's cynicism of lesbianism.. Is the social stigma attached to lesbianism so fundamental that personal happiness has to be sacrificed, even though it does not harm any other individual, excepting for their beliefs.. A bond between two individuals have many facets, as have the personalities..The movie is well made..The main theme of lesbianism is dealt with at greater length than other LGBT relation, which have been lightly touched upon.. The story line is thin, but cute.. Photography and music are great.. Performance by Shelly Conn as Nina is very good.. Laura Fraser is beautiful ..Veena Sood as Suman ( Nina's mother)is really gorgeous and has given another great performance..Though the ensemble is predominantly Asian-connected, the movie is not narrowed to Asian culture, but handles broader and deeper issues , relevant to all societies, more so to the western society..

This is a very forgettable film. It's so fluffy it very nearly became unbearable to me, and I have a very high tolerance for fluffy, trust me! There are two things it does well, however. The photography of the cooking, which is luscious, and the strong sense of chemistry between the two leading ladies.Apart from that it felt limp and poorly constructed. The direction, I think, was the key problem.The characters weren't fleshed out much at all, there was little sense of history, little sense of cohesion. It felt like it suffered from jumping narrative. There were a number of scenes where I wasn't quite sure what was going on, everything was so vague. What was Lisa's background? Why did she assume control of her father's interest in the restaurant? Was she not giving up a job of some kind to suddenly become Nina's kitchen hand? Or was it all done on the weekends? Why was the brother hiding his marriage, the explanation was odd...why didn't Lisa confide in Nina earlier about her situation with Kary? There was just so much that I felt we had to imply into events ourselves...Ultimately, it's a fairy tale, as long as you go in expecting that, rather than expecting a realistic romance, then you should find this film moderately enjoyable.

My wife liked it, the two lesbians sitting behind us loved it, but I wouldn't say it was the best film I have ever seen.PLOT I thought this was pretty simplistic. It is my own taste of course, but I didn't find myself being drawn into the films plot. I thought the storyline was good enough - girl returns home to make good, but it could have been expanded upon to add some lighter moments and perhaps a few twists here and there, but there were none. I found this pretty surprising as the film East is East had them but this did not.ACTING Not bad. I cannot remember what the actors names were, but they were OK, not outstanding.CINEMATOGRAPHY Pretty good overall. Use of lighting was good. In particular of note was when the two lesbian lovers first discovered themselves.I thought long and hard about this submission. I don't like giving bad reviews, but then I don't like being sold something that does not work, and for me I was sold something that did not work.

I hate the way this film has been criticized in the press. By insisting, as the BBC does in their review of her film, that any treatment of Asian queerness needs to be portrayed as brutish and gritty, and that any story of an Asian family coping with a queer member must be shown through the lens of a "multicultural family and their troubled psyches", the press is putting the same straight-jacket on Asian filmmakers, as they do on black filmmakers, when they insist that the only stories that can come of out the black community are stories of gun violence and rat-infested squats.The critics demand that queer Asians aren't allowed to do "Kissing Jessica Stein", that domain is reserved for whites only. Reading the reviews, you get the clear picture that the crime they want to charge Pratibha with, is not "making a bad film" but for "not telling an Asian queer story in the appropriate manner", as set out by films like East is East and My Beautiful Laundrette. That bloody sucks. More power to her for daring to challenge the stereotypes.