Ball and Chain

2004 "Can't arrange the love? Arrange the wedding!"
Ball and Chain
4.5| 1h30m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 14 May 2004 Released
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Country: United States of America
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Somewhere in the middle of Texas, Ameet (Sunil Malhotra) and Saima (Lisa Ray) have a problem. They were perfectly happy avoiding each other until their parents set them up to get married. The reluctant couple decide to do whatever it takes to break off the engagement. After some very embarrassing efforts, they finally succeed in getting their parents to call off the wedding, only to realize they have another problem, they're in love! Meanwhile, Saima's father (Asrani), deciding that she's passed her expiration date, promises her to Ashol (Ismail Bashey)- a sleazy playboy.

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sajib_mmc Watch it if you are a big fan of Lisa Ray, as I did. But in the end, I had the feeling, what a shameful waste of time. What a disgrace!!! Very much predictable story. You can sort the whole movie out just after watching only 15 minutes. Horrible acting by most of the characters except Kal Penn. But he is not the lead actor in the movie. Sunil Malhotra, the lead actor did a horrible job. He has no sense of acting. Asrani couldn't accommodate himself, I think. And Purva Bedi!!! What she was doing!!! Even Lisa Ray hadn't much to do. Only cliché dialogs. But as usual, she was looking hot and gorgeous. If you like her so much, you may watch this melodramatic disaster.
kaneelschep OK.. I just had to comment.. This movie is quite as the previous commenter sais. It definitely offers much to laugh about and I really enjoy this kind of humour! First hour. Great stuff! But then. Around the 1 hour mark the fun just dies out and the non-communication begins. And I just got more and more annoyed of the girl just not opening her mouth for once in stead of staring into the horizon and doing what daddy wants. And yeah this is the typical thing to happen in an arranged marriage/listen to your daddy/all will be good in the end kind of sort of Bollywood movie.. But it just seemed to me that that was the ONLY reason they made it to an hour-thirty. That spoiled it for me.. I skipped through the last 30 minutes in 5 minutes and forgot about it.. Which was a shame, since the first hour was.. Well.., Good.
Zima Filippov I couldn't care less about the arranged marriages and this film has done NOTHING for me, to change my perception.In fact, this film is bad in a worst possible way - instead of watching it and following the plot and the characters, the viewer has to endure a torture of deciding what aspect of the film was done the worst.The dialog is absolutely unrealistic ans is delivered as if it was read from the cue cards by people with bad sight (they pause before almost every sentence). The music is distractingly secondary punctuated, again, by the bad dialog. The pacing is the worst of all, though. I swear, I was ready to kill myself watching this slow bore and didn't do so, because I wanted to see how far it will go into rotten territory. Overall, I'd blame all of the faults on director. He should not be allowed before the camera ever again.The only saving grace is the acting. Again, it was pretty painful to see that the actors actually ARE GOOD, but subjected to spit out the garbage they are given.Don't bother. Really. One of the worst movies ever made. Seriously.
NSMC 123 Kal Penn is hilarious, the first 15 minutes they show his little predicament and his acting and comedic presence is awesome, but after that the story is about Sunil Malhotra, hes that lacky from 'American desi' and his acting is horrible, the storyline is also very formula and unexciting, lisa rey is hot, but her beauty is ruined by the cliché lines she has to say ... its all very predictable, i can say as an ABCD ... but kal penn ... his 15 minutes.. great ... cant wait for 'Namesake' ... a good lisa rey movie would be 'Bollywood Hollywood' thats isn't formula, thats a good indo-American movie about the pressures of arranged marriage... rent that...