It came up in the first episode when his mother visits. She admits to Rogelio that part of her problem with Xo is that she knows Rogelio wants more children that he can see grow up, and Xo might be too old for that. Rogelio responds that there are more options these days and Xo's age isn't a real issue. And Xo was…

He already did The Great Gatsby! He's done with non-Indian film for another decade.

Indeed! I have great faith in her ability to take even a basic "beautiful arm candy for hero" role in an action movie and turn it into something interesting.

A friend showed me a performance her 6 year old daughter and other schoolmates did for their elementary school graduation to Salaam-E-Ishq. The other parents and teachers kept asking her to translate and she decided to just say "Oh, it's about how love is nice!", and leave it at that.

I can't translate all the Hindi (although the first thing she said was "who are you?" with the informal version of you instead of the formal, and I have decided that is because she already liked him a little), but if you want to know why the dance performance was extra funny, I wrote about it http://dontcallitbollywood…

Marigold Hotel stole the "Happy Endings" line from Om Shanti Om!!!

Waiting for Guffman with more heart. And in New Jersey. And set in the American desi community. But otherwise exactly the same!

Did you purposefully miss spell "Punjab"? Because I want you to have! "Loins of Poo-jab" sounds even weirder.

Okay, you aren't wrong.

Just putting this here for clarity. "Loins of Punjab" is a reference to the way beloved Indian bad-guy actor Ajit pronounced "Lion" in the film Kalicharan. It's a sweet little inside joke for the Indian audience.

I'm just chasing references through the comments section at this point, but I can't let it go! It's an actual good film! The ridiculous title is a loving joke about how "lion of Punjab" was pronounced by an actor in an 80s Indian film, and it is given a logical context within this film in the first 5 minutes.

It's totally awesome! It's a really lowkey and realistic film about the variety of experiences of the South Asian diaspora. It's lovely, and you should watch it!
(and clearly the title was a good choice since it got you talking about it)

It's actually really good! Like, really really good. Along the same lines of Waiting For Guffman with the heart of Jane the Virgin. And if the title gets you to watch it, great!

You laugh, but it's actually a really good movie! I promise! Just try to get past the title.

If I can bear to continue my hate-watch, I'll still be reviewing it in March at https://dontcallitbollywood…

Her character was married to Amrish Puri? EWWWWW!!

I had forgotten! And now it is all coming rushing tackily back to me!

I think I saw that one years ago, blocked it from my memory, and then ran across it again recently and was stunned at its existence.

Yes! Asambhav is my all time favorite Priyanka performance! She was born to play a nightclub singer who gets sucked into a conspiracy involving the kidnapping of the Prime Minister of India while also falling in love with the commando sent to rescue him and seeking revenge for the murder of her best…

Thank you!