Rotten
Innocuous but too-cutesy affair.
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
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Flavors
Overview
Indian immigrants deal with love, family, relationships and culture shock in the United States.
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50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A good-natured Indian-American romantic comedy in the style of Bend It Like Beckham.
Richard James Havis, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
The constant cell phone chatter and pervasive split screen do little to prop up a limp, poorly structured screenplay.
Joshua Land, Village Voice
Fresh
Bright, good-spirited and blissfully short for Bollywood, at a mere 118 minutes.
Dave Kehr, New York Times
Rotten
There's enough schmaltz in the romancer Flavors to keep a second-rate TV sit-com going for an entire season, and then some.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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