Basmati Blues
A brilliant scientist is sent to India to sell the genetically modified rice she created to rural farmers, but what she doesn't realize is that it will destroy the very farmers she thinks she's helping.
8 December 1983, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
17 July 1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
20 November 1950, Patna, Bihar, India
1 October 1989, Sacramento, California, USA
9 October 1954, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
February 09, 2018
Cross-cultural musical romantic comedy stirs together some pleasing ingredients but falls short of its expansive ambitions.
February 09, 2018
An amiable misfire.
February 05, 2018
The movie starts out heedless in its desire to charm, but it winds up feeling constrained by self-consciousness, and more's the pity.
February 09, 2018
Larson's work in Basmati Blues is much like the film as a whole-not great by any means but undeniably charming nevertheless.
February 10, 2018
A shaky, Bollywood-style musical worth a watch just to see Oscar-winner Brie Larson give it her all.
February 09, 2018
Basmati Blues isn't nearly as bad as some of the online buzz might indicate...and that's actually unfortunate. Instead of vying for a so-bad-it's-entertaining categorization, it falls squarely into the hell of cinematic mediocrity.
February 08, 2018
A broadly played though vibrantly photographed musical romantic-comedy that fails to find a happy medium between cute-and-clever and simply cloying.
February 09, 2018
This attempt at an American-style Bollywood musical is earnest at best and sappy, naïve, and overly sweet at worst; it does have lively moments, but it mainly inspires aggravation and eye-rolling.
February 09, 2018
Larson's charismatic screen presence can't elevate such woefully lackluster material.
February 06, 2018
Ca-Ca Land.
February 09, 2018
Basmati Blues is an inoffensive trifle. It does not warrant outrage; it's not bold enough to risk it. Yet there is some heart, and undoubtedly, some ambition.
February 06, 2018
Watching it is something like watching a play's first full dress rehearsal or a gangly baby deer's initial efforts to stand, where it's the effort that's more engaging than the achievement itself.
