Experience the excitement of the Bollywood Hollywood film's grand music launch party with Moushumi Chatterjee, Rahul Khanna, and Lisa Ray. Watch the flashback video to relive the star-studded moments from this unforgettable event.
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00:49 Well, I am playing a role as Mrs. Ruby said.
00:55 My mother-in-law played by late Bina Pathak.
00:58 And with me, there's Rahul, Lisa, and Kul Vashanchi.
01:04 I really enjoy this film working.
01:07 It's like a picnic.
01:08 And full credit goes to the [INAUDIBLE]..
01:11 And it's amazing.
01:14 I mean, you've got to see this movie to believe it.
01:17 I mean, when I asked Rathna Pathak,
01:20 she said it, you people had a ball.
01:23 And it's showing in the movie.
01:25 That's really nice.
01:27 Bollywood Hollywood is a musical romantic comedy.
01:31 It's set in Toronto, Canada.
01:33 It's about my character, Rahul Seth.
01:37 I play a young NRI millionaire who is--
01:40 his father is dead.
01:41 So he's the head of the family.
01:43 And he has this really overdramatic mother
01:46 played by Moushami Chatterjee and this grandmother.
01:48 And both of them are quite traditional.
01:50 And they are sick of his girlfriends and all that.
01:55 So they want him to settle down.
01:57 And his sister's wedding is coming up.
01:58 So his mother tells him, either you
02:00 find yourself a nice Indian girl and settle down,
02:02 or else I'm going to call off your sister's wedding.
02:04 So he's suddenly put in a really awkward position.
02:07 So he runs out.
02:08 And he hires this girl played by Lisa Ray
02:12 to act as his fiance for a week.
02:14 He says, act as my fiance for a week, make the family happy.
02:17 And then after my sister's wedding,
02:18 we'll just go our separate ways.
02:20 But things don't really go according to plan.
02:22 And they end up falling in love with each other.
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02:27 Primarily for me on a personal level,
02:33 it's been a wonderful experience.
02:35 I think I've evolved as a performer.
02:37 I got the opportunity to work with a fantastic director,
02:40 fantastic cast and crew.
02:43 Also on another level, of course, it's a great, fun film.
02:47 And I think a really interesting comedy.
02:51 And beyond that as well, it's a very interesting fusion
02:54 of East and West.
02:54 So I think it's really got a lot of things going for it.
02:57 I'm playing a fairly schizophrenic character,
02:59 actually.
03:00 It's almost like two characters rolled into one.
03:02 There's so many different elements.
03:06 I think the thing about the film is it really is working
03:08 on many different levels.
03:09 But superficially, let's say it's
03:11 almost like a pretty woman meets--
03:15 let me see-- pretty woman meets [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
03:21 Something like that.
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03:25 The film is a big party.
03:34 The mood is all peppy.
03:35 And it's got very danceable songs.
03:39 It's a very colorful film with a lot of Indian sentiments
03:42 and sensibilities.
03:43 So like I said, there's a Sangeet song.
03:45 There's a Holi song.
03:47 There's a ballad.
03:49 There's a rendition of [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
03:52 which is very jazzed up, basically.
03:55 There's an English song.
03:58 A lot of voices being used.
03:59 So all in all, it's a very enjoyable affair.
04:01 And we've used the songs like background pieces,
04:04 apart from using two or three full songs.
04:06 So never at any point you'd be bored of a song.
04:11 Just before it gets to you, it's over.
04:14 Like a foreign original soundtrack.
04:16 The music is by Sangeet Chautha.
04:18 And I think he's done a stupendous job with it.
04:20 He's really taken the essence of the film.
04:22 He's taken the fun of the film.
04:23 He's taken the romance of the film.
04:25 And he's put it into the music.
04:29 And he also has offered quite a wide range in his music.
04:31 There's a couple of ballads.
04:33 There are some really energetic numbers.
04:35 There's one of my favorites is a remix of Chin Chin Chu.
04:39 You remember that old song?
04:40 He's remixed it and done a great new version of it.
04:43 And there's also a bhajan on it.
04:45 So I think there's something for everyone.
04:47 Sangeet Chautha has done a fantastic job with the music,
04:50 if I do say so myself.
04:53 I think the proof is in the pudding.
04:54 I mean, the fact is that after the film was released
04:56 in Canada, we had a great mainstream response.
05:00 And there would be many sort of white Canadians
05:04 who would come out of the theater
05:05 sort of humming the music and asking, where can we buy this?
05:08 So I think that's a great compliment to Sangeet.
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05:14 I feel deep-eyed audacity to ask me to do English films.
05:22 And I also got a braveness to accept that.
05:26 And if you ask me for language, I
05:29 have a problem with Hindi also.
05:31 And now my Bengali is bad because I
05:33 try to speak all the language.
05:35 As far as I understand, language means
05:37 you've got to reach to people.
05:39 I think I do that very well.
05:41 This was Deena Pathak's last film.
05:43 She passed away about a couple of months ago.
05:46 So it was a real honor to work with her.
05:48 And I really enjoyed working with her very, very much.
05:50 She's a fantastic actress.
05:52 Moushimi Chatterjee as well.
05:53 She's played my father's romantic interest.
05:56 She's played my brother's mother.
05:58 So she's almost like screen family.
06:01 And she's very funny in the film.
06:03 She's done a really fantastic job.
06:05 Both Moushimi Chatterjee and Deena Pathak
06:08 have been nominated for the Canadian Oscars.
06:11 So they've really done well.
06:14 Also the rest of the cast--
06:15 Gulbhushan Karbanda, Ranjit Choudhury, Lisa Ray-- fantastic.
06:19 All of them were really good.
06:21 It's a totally international crew.
06:24 And this was the first time they were working on a Bollywood
06:27 style film.
06:28 So it was fun working with them and sort
06:30 of seeing their reactions to the songs and dances and all that.
06:33 It's a great film.
06:33 I think the film being such a riot
06:36 is really helping the music.
06:38 I mean, you don't say, oh, God, here comes another song.
06:42 It's just been aptly placed.
06:44 I've used the music.
06:48 I've not really had to do too much with the background score,
06:50 because I've really used a lot of the songs.
06:53 And it's a nice feeling to use the songs in a background score.
06:55 Half the time when I've been scoring,
06:56 I've been just doing a parallel soundtrack
06:58 and not using my songs.
07:00 Because I think it's probably only must and now probably dumb
07:04 where I had a chance to use my songs as background elements.
07:08 But Deepa Mehta's film definitely
07:10 has given me the scope to do that.
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