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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = My Bollywood Bride<br />
| image = Poster_MyBollywoodBride.jpg<br />
| caption = Theatrical poster<br />
| director = [[Rajeev Virani]]<br />
| producer = Brad Listermann<br />Dr. Daljit Buttar<br />Duncan Clark<br />[[Douglas Falconer (producer)|Douglas Falconer]]<br />Ruchi Gupta<br />Harit Kapedia<br />Richard Martini<br />Ashok Rao<br /> Balwinder Bajaj<br />
| writer = [[Brad Listermann]]<br />[[Richard Martini (director)|Richard Martini]]<br />Kashmira Shah<br />
| starring = [[Jason Lewis (actor)|Jason Lewis]]<br /> [[Kashmera Shah]]<br />
| distributor = [[Hiskarma Productions]]<br />[[Dream Team Films]]<br />
| released = '''[[Palm Springs International Film Festival]]'''<br />14 January 2006<br />'''India'''<br />22 March 2007<br />'''United States''' ''limited''<br />8 June 2007<br />
| runtime = 95 minutes<br />
| country = {{ubl|India|United States}}<br />
| language = English<br />Hindi<br />
| music = [[Anu Malik]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''''My Bollywood Bride''''' is a 2006 Indian-American film, released in 2007 theatrically and was released as "My Faraway Bride", on DVD (Vivendi/Universal) in August 2008 and also premiered on Showtime and Starz in 2008. Written by [[Richard Martini (director)|Richard Martini]] and Kashmera Shah, story and produced by Brad Listermann, it stars [[Jason Lewis (actor)|Jason Lewis]] and [[Kashmera Shah]] and is directed by [[Rajeev Virani]]. Despite its setting in [[India]] and the story taking place in front of one of India's major film industries, [[Bollywood]], the film does not feature the same amount or type of sing-and-dance-numbers [[Indian Cinema]] is famous for. Its primary language is English with some Hindi.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Alex (Jason Lewis), living in [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice Beach]], is a struggling writer. One day, he meets Reena (Kashmera Shah) at the beach. They spend time together and Alex starts to fall in love with her. However, some days later, Reena disappears at LAX. The only thing Alex knows about her is that she's from Thakur Village, Mumbai, India - so he follows her there. In India, he discovers, with the help of his new driver Priyad ([[Ash Chandler]]) that Reena is the greatest film star of Bollywood and engaged to Shekar, an influential Bollywood producer. Alex stays with Bobby K. ([[Sanjay Suri]]), a friend of Reena and a big Bollywood actor himself - while Alex is struggling with his own romance, Bobby starts to fall for his choreographer, Alisha ([[Neha Dubey]]), an old friend from his past he very much disappointed by simply forgetting about her when he became famous. Reena, hesitant to break off an engagement arranged by her parents, feels that she owes Shekhar her entire career, while Alex is struggling with Reena's mother and Shekhar himself, who both feel that Reena and Alex might be too interested in each other. Bobby K. meanwhile, after a broken down car, gets stuck with Alisha in some abandoned hut at the beach, they have an opportunity to talk and make up, however shortly afterwards, a misunderstanding occurs and Alisha feels betrayed all over again. Reena, meanwhile, tells Alex to leave, as she is going to accept her family's wishes and will marry Shekhar in order to preserve the tradition of an arranged marriage. Alex is all ready to leave India and Bobby finds out that Shekhar is having an affair with a co-worker (The entire affair is caught on CD). Reena's parents tell her not give up her happiness and tell her to go after Alex, Bobby clarifies the misunderstanding between him and Alisha and makes her pursue her dreams and Reena stops Alex to leave the country after a rickshaw chase. Everything ends well and Reena and Alex, after professing their love for each other, get married.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Jason Lewis (actor)|Jason Lewis]] as Alex Kincaid<br />
* [[Kashmera Shah]] as Reena Khanna<br />
* [[Gulshan Grover]] as Shekar Singh<br />
* [[Sanjay Suri]] as Bobby<br />
* [[Neha Dubey]] as Alisha<br />
* [[Ash Chandler]] as Priyad<br />
* [[Deepak Qazir]] as Reena's father<br />
* [[Madhuri Bhatia]] as Reena's mother<br />
* [[Sean O'Brien Teague]] as Sean "Shekhar"'s bodyguard<br />
* [[Vineet Wadhwa]] as Ravi<br />
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== Release ==<br />
''Variety'' wrote that "That said, the film’s most marketable asset is, in a way, also its biggest liability".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/reviews/my-bollywood-bride-1200518974/|title = My Bollywood Bride|date = 28 January 2006}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|id=0397551|title=My Bollywood Bride}}<br />
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[[Category:2006 films]]<br />
[[Category:Films about Indian Americans]]<br />
[[Category:2000s English-language films]]<br />
[[Category:2000s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:English-language Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Films about interracial romance]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Anu Malik]]<br />
[[Category:American romance films]]<br />
[[Category:2000s American films]]<br />
[[Category:Asian-American romance films]]<br />
[[Category:Films about Bollywood]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Mumbai]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Los Angeles]]</div>Ajay Kumar