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Zoran009
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Who can resist Bend It Like Beckham?

Arthur J Pais | April 17, 2003 12:25 IST

As Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham shapes into a major sleeper hit while slowly expanding its run across the US, some newspapers have started comparing it to My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
The starless $5 million ethnic comedy, with Parminder Nagra in the lead, has grossed an astounding $350 million worldwide.

Bend It, like Greek Wedding, is starting off strong, a USA Today headline declared. The movie, which added dozens of theatres and won fans in Kansas City, Miami, Memphis and other cities last week, 'is working it like a winner,' the newspaper said.

Some box-office experts wonder if the film will have the kind of legs Greek Wedding did.

http://rediff.com/movies/2003/apr/17bend.htm
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Does anyone know how much Monsoon Wedding grossed?
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jag wrote:
Does anyone know how much Monsoon Wedding grossed?

Monsoon Wedding is officially the highest grossing Indian Film worldwide including India. Its worldwide box office receipts now total over US $23 million, which translates to approx 110 crore rupees. It is also the highest grossing Indian film in the US by far with its current US total at US $13.75 million. The second higest grossing Indian film in the US is 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham' with approx $2.3 million. Monsoon Wedding is now also in the all time US top ten of Foreign Language films.
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arsh wrote:
Who can resist Bend It Like Beckham?

Arthur J Pais | April 17, 2003 12:25 IST

The starless $5 million ethnic comedy, with Parminder Nagra in the lead, has grossed an astounding $350 million worldwide.

There is clearly a typo in the article for later on he goes on to say that it has earned 50mill worldwide...i wonder which of the two are correct......
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Sanjay wrote:
jag wrote:
Does anyone know how much Monsoon Wedding grossed?

Monsoon Wedding is officially the highest grossing Indian Film worldwide including India. Its worldwide box office receipts now total over US $23 million, which translates to approx 110 crore rupees. It is also the highest grossing Indian film in the US by far with its current US total at US $13.75 million. The second higest grossing Indian film in the US is 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham' with approx $2.3 million. Monsoon Wedding is now also in the all time US top ten of Foreign Language films.

That record will almost certainly be broken by BILB; unless we don't consider BILB as an 'Indian' film.
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MalFUnXiON wrote:
That record will almost certainly be broken by BILB; unless we don't consider BILB as an 'Indian' film.

I don't think Bend It Like Beckham qualifies as an Indian film.
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There is clearly a typo in the article for later on he goes on to say that it has earned 50mill worldwide...i wonder which of the two are correct......

The correct amount is 50 million.
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i would rather argue that you can't call monsoon wedding an indian movie...

btw the "true" indian movie that made the highest in USA isn't K3G, it's devdas...

http://www.screendaily.com/story.a....das&s=3

Eros’ own distribution arms opened in India, the UK and on limited "Indiatown" release in the US. In the UK it grossed $2.7m and in the US $2.9m.
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dograk wrote:
i would rather argue that you can't call monsoon wedding an indian movie...



I'd argue that as well.

I was not a fan of MONSOON. I found it too dry, not up to Bollywood.

BECKHAM, which I would also argue isn't really an Indian film, was absolutely wonderful though. Just saw this and loved it.
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Sanjay wrote:
The correct amount is 50 million.

$ 50 million before it picked up momenum in US - Canada. Keeps on picking up. Let's see whete it ends.

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I fail to understand why there is any debate about 'Monsoon Wedding' being an Indian film, it was produced by an Indian company, it had Indian actors, was shot in India, is in the local Indian language (Hindi, Punjabi & English all very much local Indian languages) and the director is of Indian decent (I am not sure of Mira Nair's citizen status). Does a film have to be made by the regular "Bollywood" fools for it to qualify as an Indian film? By the way the film was elligible to be entered from India for the Academy Awards, I would think all these facts make the film very much Indian.

On the other hand 'Bend It Like Beckham' is a British production, directed by a British Citizen with almost all British actors (some of Indian decent but British) except for Anupam Kher and it is also in just English (British accent to the boot) and the film qualifies as a British entry for the Academy Awards.
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Sanjay wrote:
I fail to understand why there is any debate about 'Monsoon Wedding' being an Indian film, it was produced by an Indian company, it had Indian actors, was shot in India, is in the local Indian language (Hindi, Punjabi & English all very much local Indian languages) and the director is of Indian decent (I am not sure of Mira Nair's citizen status). Does a film have to be made by the regular "Bollywood" fools for it to qualify as an Indian film? By the way the film was elligible to be entered from India for the Academy Awards, I would think all these facts make the film very much Indian.

On the other hand 'Bend It Like Beckham' is a British production, directed by a British Citizen with almost all British actors (some of Indian decent but British) except for Anupam Kher and it is also in just English (British accent to the boot) and the film qualifies as a British entry for the Academy Awards.

monsoon wedding was produced by IFC Productions, which isn't an indian company. It was also shot in Italy, not only delhi. the movie was conceptualised in the US, was scripted in the US, and was paid for by an american company. ultimately, i think that settles the issue - it was not produced or conceptualized by an indian company and in any case, the director left india almost 30 yrs ago.
secondly, the movie was NOT eligible for the oscars.

and i wholeheartedly agree that BILB isn't indian - but neither is MW.
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Well, DUDES!! FUTURE of BOLLYWOOD is CROSS OVER FILMS!!

like MW! HB, BILB, GURU, etc!!

SRK etc, BIG WIGS , Boriya bistar bandh lo, agar CROSS OVER nahin jaana!!
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dograk wrote:
It was also shot in Italy, not only delhi.

Really! I had no idea. Which parts were shot in Italy?

dograk wrote:
the movie was conceptualised in the US, was scripted in the US

I don't think that means anything, all of Karan Johar's films are conceptualized in the UK. Does that mean KKHH & K3G are not "Indian". I don't think so.

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secondly, the movie was NOT eligible for the oscars.

Yeah! but the FFI had selected Monsoon Wedding as one of the many "Indian" contenders to represent India at the Oscar run.

Also, further note that many Hollywood movies are financed by companies from Europe, but essentially they are recognized as "American" Hollywood productions.

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i *grudgingly* admit your point about the conceptualization...:) ,

i don't know about the exact locations in italy, but i could look that up...

also, just because the FFI had selected it doesn't mean jack - they're fools, since they should've known it was ineligible...

another point tho, is that of the crew 99% is gora....
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dograk wrote:
another point tho, is that of the crew 99% is gora....

So was Kaante's

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