Review: Indian Fish in American Waters

Well...What can I say...except if I were Manish Gupta, I would probably go incognito or at least not announce it proudly at the end of a crap fest that it was a Manish Gupta film.
I think one can get a very good idea of where this is going.....I am not even going to do my usual movie review here.
I envision a brainstorming session before this movie was created:
1. Why mess with the 'perfection' ie Karan Johar/Yash Chopra/Generic Bollywood crap..we shall stay in the box.
2. Let us make it as filmy as possible.
3. Let us use as many stereotypical characters, after all average is great, since we are making a movie reaching across labels.
4. Let us cram as many bad songs (with the possible exception of one), the usual amount being 4-5, so let us fit it all in...Oh wait we are making a movie in English, hmmn that means the length of the movie will be say around 94 mins. Oh what the hell we will compromise and put in a few songs in English and maybe throw in some Indian music. ...yeah sounds great let us fit in 4-5 songs in English (+ 1 in Indian Classical music)..that is a 'win win' situation.

Sure sounds like a great movie...I can see the oscars pouring in acclaiming the cinematic masterpiece which is ' Indian Fish in American Waters'.
Okay now that I am done venting...here is the review if you still care..trust me the story is couple of lines....my comments are a lot lot lot longer.
Desi guy Navin Reddy (FOB, let me quote the movie " No offense meant labels are just to categorize") from Hyderabad comes to the US (of course to NYC) works in scumbag desifirm run by Bobby Patel. Megha Patel (ABCD) comes to meet Bobby Patel (Patel, no relation in case people were thinking this was a great movie about incest, that at least would have been interesting). supposedly to do research on FOBs, even though Megha works in advertising. Anyway she meets Navin Reddy who in a song goes out with her and falls in love and runs around trees( oh wait he does not do that..I just got it they were rebelling in the movie..OMG). Bobby is the 'villain' who is in love with Megha...wait I am not not going to continue with this story..skip to the end..airport flight to catch....engagement before that with villain.....villain good guy...before the end throw in some scenes very badly inspired by 'Meet the Parents'.. all friends and family make them get back....kiss kiss hug hug..FOB & ABCD live happily ever after ...bridging labels....amazing...

When I saw Mitr my friend, I thought this is bad (stereotypically bad, Revathy bad). When I saw American Desi, I thought that was crap, compared to a similarly themed movie Bollywood/Hollywood. But man now that I have seen this, Bollywood/Hollywood deserves an Oscar.

Okay let me try to focus on the good in the movie....hmmmn..that is easy ....it is over!!!!!
Shweta Melhotra is sort of fine in her role, as is Raj Vasudeva. The End.