{"id":2166,"date":"2005-09-07T01:26:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2166"},"modified":"2005-09-07T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T05:28:00","slug":"curry_in_no_hur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/07\/curry_in_no_hur\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Curry&#8217; in no hurry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tadrart.com\/tessalit\/one_dollar_curry\/GB\/Resources\/Trailer_GB.mov\"><img style=\"width: 300px; height: 187px\" alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/OneDollarCurry.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tadrart.com\/tessalit\/one_dollar_curry\/GB\/Resources\/Trailer_GB.mov\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000820.html\">Vikram Chatwal&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000729.html\">One Dollar Curry<\/a><\/em> finally <a href=\"http:\/\/tadrart.com\/tessalit\/one_dollar_curry\/GB\/Resources\/Trailer_GB.mov\">posts a trailer<\/a> and makes its lumpy appearance in London Sep. 23rd, a full year after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000729.html\">its&nbsp;Paris debut<\/a>&nbsp;(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiansinmedia.org\/news\/article.php\/television\/1086\">AiM<\/a>). Nip-slip dictates that we pixelate, you pervs.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineworld.co.uk\/php-bin\/frameme.php?page=\/films\/1dollarcurry.fhtml\"><img style=\"width: 150px; height: 242px\" alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/OneDollarCurry2.jpg\" align=left vspace=10 border=0><\/a>Chowhounds take note &#8212; the concoction this character vends is true Punjabi-style <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001593.html\">curry<\/a>. The plot is a&nbsp;Paris-based, cooking-centric&nbsp;takeoff on&nbsp;<em>The Guru, <\/em>the trailer features &#8216;Kamasutra&#8217; body oil nestled in a leopard-print bikini, the site uses a cloying, annoying faux-Indic font, and Chatwal seems to have both a cross and &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/waheguru\">waheguru<\/a>&#8216; tattooed to his right arm.<\/p>\n\n<p>Despite these less-than-stellar atmospherics, the soundtrack is catchy, and the movie doesn&#8217;t seem as bad as it so richly deserves to be given the hackneyed plot and inexperienced cast. It&#8217;s got an adorable, Ganesh-painted three-wheeler, the&nbsp;incantation of a&nbsp;six-degrees&nbsp;family tree is dead on, and Gabriella Wright is surely one of the cutest English-Irish-Portuguese-Mauritians out there.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tadrart.com\/tessalit\/one_dollar_curry\/GB\/Resources\/Trailer_GB.mov\">Watch the trailer<\/a>&nbsp;or <a href=\"http:\/\/tadrart.com\/tessalit\/one_dollar_curry\/GB\/musique.html\">listen to the soundtrack<\/a>. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tadrart.com\/tessalit\/one_dollar_curry\/GB\/home.html\">the official site<\/a>. Previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000729.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram Chatwal&#8217;s&nbsp;One Dollar Curry finally posts a trailer and makes its lumpy appearance in London Sep. 23rd, a full year after its&nbsp;Paris debut&nbsp;(via AiM). Nip-slip dictates that we pixelate, you pervs. Chowhounds take note &#8212; the concoction this character vends &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/07\/curry_in_no_hur\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}