Marigold (2007)

Actors: Willard Carroll (director), Farah Khan (miscellaneous crew), Shankar Mahadevan (composer), Ehsaan Noorani (composer), Greg Bernstein (miscellaneous crew), Graeme Revell (composer), Willard Carroll (writer), Rakesh Bedi (actor), Helen (actress), Gulshan Grover (actor), Salman Khan (actor), Vijayendra Ghatge (actor), Loy Mendonsa (composer), Jayesh Pradhan (miscellaneous crew), Vaibhavi Merchant (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Born in America, Marigold was the only child in the Lexton family. Her mom died when she was very young. She took an interest in acting and movies, much to the chagrin of her dad, who refused to do anything with her. She started acting in small budget movies as well sequels to popular releases such as Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct amongst others. She landed a part in Kama Sutra 3 and had an eventful journey to Mumbai, India, and from there by taxi to Goa. It is here she found out that the movie has been canceled, and she has no money to return home as she was provided with a one-way ticket. She lands a singing/dancing role in Manoj Sharma's film, meets with Dance Instructor, Prem Rajput, who tells her that his grandma had predicted that he would meet and then get married to a woman named Marigold. She becomes attracted to him, even accompanies him to Jodhpur, Rajasthan, to his family home on the occasion of his sister, Pooja's marriage. It is here she will find out that Prem belongs to a royal family, and his marriage had already been finalized with a woman named Jhanvi, and no one in this family has ever dared to go against arranged marriages and tradition.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, dance-teacher, film-industry, india, movie-actress
Genres: Comedy,

The Rains Came (1939)

Actors: George Regas (actor), William Royle (actor), Nigel Bruce (actor), Abner Biberman (actor), George Brent (actor), Pedro Regas (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Zebedy Colt (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), William Edmunds (actor), Tyrone Power (actor), Joseph Schildkraut (actor),

Plot: The adventurous Lady Edwina Esketh travels to the princely state of Ranchipur in India with her husband, Lord Albert Esketh, who is there to purchase some of the Maharajah's horses. She's surprised to meet an old friend, Tom Ransome who came to Ranchipur seven years before to paint the Maharajah's portrait and just stayed on. Ransome has developed something of a reputation - for womanizing and drinking too much - but that's OK with Edwina who is bored and looking for fun. She soon meets the local doctor, the hard working and serious Major Rama Safti. He doesn't immediately respond to her advances but when the seasonal rains come, disaster strikes when a dam fails, flooding much of the countryside. Disease soon sets in and everyone, including Ransome and Edwina, work at a non-stop pace to save as many as possible. Safti deeply admires Edwina's sacrifice but fate intervenes.

Keywords: american-abroad, artist, based-on-novel, butler, cholera, cigarette-holder, cigarette-smoking, dam-burst, dead-woman-with-eyes-open, disaster
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: [showing Lady Esketh the Maharajah's summer palace] That's a Rembrandt. That's a Buddhist prayer wheel.

Major Rama Safti: [translating Hindu song] "Would my lyre were of jade, its strings of pure-spun gold, that I might sing with merit of your beauty... in your heart my love has found a home, and it can never die..."

Lady Edwina Esketh: You sober enough to take me to the party?::Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: [taking a drink] Almost.

Lady Edwina Esketh: Some night you're going to fall flat on your face and people will begin to suspect you drink.

Mrs. Simon: It's my last tea this season. We'll be leaving for Simla before the rains. You'll be going too, of course?::Lily Hoggett-Egburry: Naturally. No one stays in Ranchipur during the monsoon.::Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: No? Only about five million people.

Maharani: What is Lady Esketh doing at the hospital?::Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Every conceivable filthy and drudging task.::Maharani: Yes, I suppose Miss MacDaid would have seen to that.

Lady Edwina Esketh: I've been hearing dreadful things about you. It seems you've become a shockingly useful citizen.

Major Rama Safti: The world's not as bad as you think, Tom.::Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: No? Only trying to commit suicide as fast as it knows how.::Major Rama Safti: I don't agree with you. Here in Ranchipur we're trying to make it a little better.::Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: The whole world?::Major Rama Safti: OUR world - India in general, Ranchipur in particular.::Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: I rather like the old place, just as it is.::Major Rama Safti: You see it as an artist. I see it as an Indian. My people are crying for help. After centuries of disease and poverty and superstition.

Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: I hope I'm not keeping you from your guests.::Fern Simon: Oh, they're not *my* guests. That's mother's idea of "high society." They're all excited because YOU'RE here.::Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Really? Should I be flattered?::Fern Simon: They say dreadful things about you...::Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: [playfully whispers] What sort of things?::Fern Simon: That you're a drunkard, and a bounder, and a remittance man... They'll hang around you just the same, because your father was an earl.

Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: [Describing Ranchipur to Lady Edwina Esketh] See, in Ranchipur, the important things in life are the elemental things, such as crops, starvation, and weather. In Europe, when someone says "It looks like rain," in all probability, he's trying to make polite conversation. But here, where people die as easily as they're born, they're speaking in terms of life and death. You'll see what I mean, if you're still here when the rains come. You'll see them overnight turn the fields, the gardens and the jungles from a parched and burning desert, into a mass of green that seems to live, to writhe and to devour the walls, the trees and the houses.