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Rachael (Ginnifer Goodwin), a successful NY lawyer loves her best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson) who has invited her to be the maid of honour for her wedding. Nothing wrong with that, except that Rachael has always loved her best friend’s fiance, Dex (Colins Egglesfield), but has never been able to display her feelings for him. Trouble brews when Dex reciprocates a similar passion for the staid singleton and the conflict between love and friendship begins.If you’ve seen and savoured Julia Robert’s somewhat wicked antics in My Best Friend’s Wedding, there would be little reason why you would enjoy this pale copy of the livelier treatise on love versus friendship. Specially since Ginnifer Goodwin is such a washed out version of a girl who is in two minds whether to bother about herself or her friend. Of course, she does have the usual dilemmas when her best friend unwittingly humiliates her and uses her. Also, the fact that Dex follows her around like a devoted puppy and doesn’t think twice before having a steamy night out with her, does make her weigh her options often…. But rarely does the fire raging within force her to throw caution to the windsThe film proceeds as an unending, over-extended pre-nuptial party, where loyalties are tested and friendships are re-iterated. The threesome insists on hiding their true feelings and desires, so much so, it gets a bit irksome: all this subterfuge! The only person who displays a bit of spark is Kate Hudson who remains realistically me-centric till the very end. For the rest, there’s too much schmaltzy sacrifice to keep the drama off sleep mode.

It was during the making of “ West is West”, which is a sequel to the successful Indo-UK collaborated film, “East is East”, that British producer Leslee Udwin realized the real worth of the much acclaimed Indian hospitality.

As the film readies for release in India in June, Leslee recalls the warmth of the local Punjabi population as the film was shot largely in Punjab and Chandigarh. “The openness, warmth and pure hearts of the Punjabis was inspiring and extremely moving. This seemed like a stark contrast to the mostly cynical crews and population one is used to dealing with in the UK,” says Leslee, who is a BAFTA award winner, among other awards.

The film that stars Om Puri, Linda Basset, Ila Arun, Vijay Raaz and Jimi Mistry besides the others, is in the English cross over genre and is finally being released in India after it opened in theatres in the UK 13 weeks ago. It has even travelled to most of the prestigious film festivals across the world, including Abu Dhabi International Film festival in October last year, where it won the audience choice award.