Movie: The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel
Genre: comedy-drama
Synopsis: Sonny Kapoor (Dev
Patel, the hero of Slumdog Millionaire) is the black sheep of his Indian family. He is trying to make a success of what is
left of his family’s rundown hotel in India by making it into a retirement home
with British senior citizens as his target community. A group of British citizens portrayed by some
seasoned movie veterans, including Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, and
Maggie Smith have made the unhappy discovery that they cannot afford retirement
in England. When they see Sonny Kapoor’s
ad for “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” they decide to take the plunge and move
to India. The hotel is not quite as it
is portrayed in the ad. Some of the
seniors go with the flow, some are absolutely smitten with life in India, some absolutely
hate it. The movie follows how they each
deal with the situation.
My two cents: I absolutely
loved this movie. It was great fun watching how each of these people dealt with
the situation. We learn a bit about each of the characters/ With most of them, the more you learn the
more you like them. Some of them do not
reveal the better side until almost the end of the movie. Some of them never do. This is a movie well worth your time.
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