Judi Dench, Maggie Smith: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directed by John Madden (THE NATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW)

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John Daly-Peoples |
Thursday March 22, 2012

In 1963, Cliff Richard and his twenty something mates headed off on an idyllic summer holiday to Greece. Now fifty years later his generation of 70 year olds have discovered a new holiday or rather retirement haven in India.

These are the new lost children of England who run from their grandparental duties, the lack of available new partners and the preponderance of Indians flooding into the country. These pensioners decide that they can eke out their pensions in India and have some sort of physical and possibly spiritual rebirth by following the guidance of the Karma Sutra.

They all wash up at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a slightly down at heel hotel in Jaipur run by an enthusiastic young Indian who is only halfway through the renovations. It is a light hearted look at the internationalism and globalization of culture where Indians invade England and the English start to take over India, again.


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