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Movie Review for Nina's Heavenly Delights
Movie Review for
Nina's Heavenly Delights
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Nina's Heavenly Delights | | |
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11 Reviews total.
Release date: 10/5/2007
Run length: 96 mins.
Categories:
Art/Foreign
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Comedy
Summary:
Returning to Glasgow to run her recently deceased father's curry house, Nina Shah, a feisty, young, Indo-Scottish woman, finds half of the business is owned by Lisa, daughter of the local bookie. She is also reunited with her childhood friend Bobbi, a Bollywood drag queen. Nina and Lisa embark on their personal mission to win the 'Best of the West' curry competition, a highly coveted prize in the world of Indian cuisine. A blend of adventure and discovery follows with humourous and startling results.
Reviews of Nina's Heavenly Delights
By
Jaspreet Pandohar
of BBC (7/0)
Like a dainty appetiser, Nina's Heavenly Delights tries but fails to fill you up.
By
Jay Antani
of Boxoffice Magazine (7/0)
Parmar scores pleasant performances across the board...Yet the story is bland, like it's been ove...
By
Frank Lovece
of Film Journal International (7/0)
It's a lovely ideal, and the food dishes are photographed scrumptiously, but the whole thing come...
By
Peter Bradshaw
of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
I wanted to like it, but this new Glasgow-set drama really is weak.
By
Geoff Berkshire
of Metromix.com (7/0)
The novelty value of an east meets west cultural dynamic isn't enough to disguise how late Nina's...
By
Kam Williams
of NewsBlaze (6/1)
You know a cross-cultural, gender-bending dramedy has issues, when its most memorable moment is a...
Reviews of Nina's Heavenly Delights
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
In her feature debut, filmmaker Pratibha Parmar falls back on every cliché she's supposedly tryin...
By
Rob Humanick
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
It's ironic how a film whose outcome depends on the difference between technical perfection and p...
By
Edward Lawrenson
of Time Out (5/2)
Disappointingly tepid and flavourless fare.
By
Abigail Deutsch
of Village Voice (7/0)
Veena Sood plays Nina's mother with magisterial presence. But Conn overacts just as much as the i...
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Michael Ordoña
of Los Angeles Times (3/4) No reference
Making her feature debut after several documentaries, Parmar displays rookie jitters with excessi...
Movie Distributors
Regent Releasing Production Companies
Scion Films
Priority Pictures
Kali Films
Scottish Screen Movie Studios
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