For those looking for a vacation from the irony and the cruelty that have invaded so much of American popular culture, this scruffy little Indian film is a delightful getaway.
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Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Anand manages to work in shamelessly exploitative September 11 footage between numbers, but aside from this sequence, Love couldn't be more giddily benign.
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New York Post
New York Post
This blithe inattention to authenticity is perversely endearing, and the whole (overlong) shebang is so jolly and well-intentioned, that it's kind of fun. It's just not very good film-making.
A crudely executed affair that doesn't play well to Western sensibilities.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Dev Anand's unintentionally hilarious Bollywood romance would be considered terrible by any artistic standard, but it serves as proof that sometimes the worst films make for the most fun.