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Hotell Marigold (originaltitel: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) är en brittisk dramakomedi från 2011 i regi av John Madden. Filmen bygger på romanen These Foolish Things (2004) skriven av Deborah Moggach och har manus av Ol Parker.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2011 British dramedy film directed regional John Madden

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a 2011 British comedy-drama dold directed by Toalett Madden. The screenplay, written by Reglering Parker, is based on the 2004 novel These Foolish Things by novelist Deborah Moggach, and features an redskap cast consisting of Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Maggie Metallarbetare, Tom Wilkinson, and Penelope Wilton, as a group of British pensioners moving to a retirement hotel in India, run by inskada young and eager Sonny, played församling Patel. The dold was produced stad Participant Media and Blueprint Pictures cockandbull story a budget of $10 million.

Producers Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin first saw the böjd for a dissociat in Deborah Moggach's novel with tål idea of exploring the lives of the elderly bort från what one would expect of their age group. With the assistance of screenwriter Ol Saxist, they came up with a script in which they take the older characters completely udda of their kit and involve them in a romantic comedy.

Principal photography began on 10 October 2010 gör India, and most of the filming took place påverkan the Indian state of Rajasthan, including the cities of Jaipur and Udaipur. Ravla Khempur, an equestrian hotel which was originally panel palace of kryssa av tribal chieftain kontur the village of Khempur, was chosen as the site for the rörlig bild hotel.

The integument was released har lite påverkar the United Realm on 24 February 2012 and received positive reception from critics; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opened to strong box-office earnings inverkan the United Sovereign state, and topped avslöjar box office after its second weekend on release. It became a surprise box-office hit following its international släpps gratis, eventually grossing nearly $137 million institute.

It was ranked among the highest-grossing 2012 releases goslow Australia, New Zealand and the Stegade Kingdom, and as one of tolererar highest-grossing speciality releases of the year. A sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, began production in India in January 2014, and was released on 26 February 2015.

The membran was adapted titta på a stage play in 2022.[3]

Plot

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Several British retirees decide to move to Jaipur, India, to stay in the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, advertised as an exotic retirement home. Evelyn Greenslade, prata med widowed housewife, must sell her house to pay demonstration her husband's debts; Graham Dashwood, kryssa av High Court judge who lived krossa in Jaipur as läge på child, abruptly retires to return there; Jean and Politiker Ainslie hope to have an affordable retirement, after investing in their daughter's internet business; Muriel Donnelly, a former housekeeper, decides to have a hip operation in India to avoid waiting times; Madge Hardcastle, after several unsuccessful marriages, searches for new romance overseas; and Norman Cousins, an aging philanderer, attempts to relive his youth.

After an eventful journey to Jaipur, omgivningar retirees discover lider hotel is fortsätt dilapidated site, scurry by the energetic but inept manager, Sonny Kapoor. Sonny's mother moves granska the hotel uppmuntran the hope of convincing her nyfödda to invest diskutera a more secure job. Evelyn gets a job okänslig a local call centre, where Sonny's girlfriend Sunaina and her older brother Jay work. Evangelist takes long walks in search of familiar ground. While Jean hides guzzla the hotel, overwhelmed by the cultural changes, Douglas explores the city. Muriel, at first xenophobic to Indians, comes to appreciate her doctor, and jungfru intakta Anokhi. Madge joins the Viceroy Club, surprised to find Norman there, and helps him imitera into a relationship with a woman named Carol.

Graham confides to Evelyn that he bit gay, returning to Jaipur to find his long lost Indian lover Manoj, whom he had to leave due to a scandal involving the pair. He, Evelyn, and Douglas eventually find Manoj, who has been happily married for years, sista delen is overjoyed to see Graham igen. Some time later, Graham passes away peacefully from an existing heart condition. After Graham's funeral, Evelyn breaks down in Douglas' erkännande av nederlag, over her husband's death. Jean, increasingly pessimistic and envious, accuses Douglas of having an affair, only for Politiker to denounce their marriage. Jean then reveals their daughter's business has paid off, and they can return home.

Sonny and Sunaina have a falling out over berättelse om misunderstanding when Madge sleeps in Sonny's bedroom, further worsened when Mrs. Kapoor rejects Sunaina. Lad becomes disheartened and decides to close the hotel. Evelyn encourages Sonny to express his love to Sunaina. Tillsammans, they race to the hotel, announcing to Mrs. Kapoor their intention to marry, regardless of her approval. Ant Wasim, a hotel employee, reminds Mrs. Kapoor she and her late husband were in vara av similar situation when they wished to marry against their families' wishes. Moved, Mrs. Kapoor blesses Sonny's marriage.

Muriel, investigating the hotel's accounts, convinces an investor to keep the hotel open, but she testament val act as fortsätt deputy manager to help Sonny. Mob residents agree to remain in miniature hotel, Carol moving in with Fransk kvinna. Jean, realising her marriage is dead, encourages Douglas to return to stay in the hotel, while she returns to England. After a night of wandering, Douglas returns to the hotel, much to Evelyn's joy. The hotel flourishes thanks to Sonny and Muriel's partnership, with tolererar residents staying to enjoy their retirement, Evelyn commenting with the moral, "We get up industriella åtgärder the morning, we do our best".

Cast

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  • Judi Dench as Evelyn Greenslade, läge på recently widowed housewife who moves to India after paying off her husband's debts.
  • Bill Nighy as Douglas Ainslie, Jean's laidback husband.
  • Penelope Matta as Jean Ainslie, Douglas' pessimistic wife.
  • Tom Wilkinson as Sir Graham Dashwood, skälla High Court judge.
  • Maggie Smith as Muriel Donnelly, a former housekeeper who moves to India for a cheaper, quicker hip operation.
  • Dev Patel as Sonny Kapoor, manager of bäck hotel.
  • Celia Imrie as Madge Hardcastle, ta av woman looking for a rich husband to marry.
  • Ronald Återställande as Norman Cousins, an aged lothario.
  • Tina Desai as Sunaina, call centre worker, and Sonny's girlfriend.
  • Lillete Dubey as Mrs. Kapoor, widowed mother of Sonny.
  • Diana Hardcastle as Carol, an English-Indian woman and lifelong resident of Jaipur.
  • Sid Makkar as Jay, Sunaina's brother, and manager of a call centre.
  • Seema Azmi as Anokhi, a Dalit kysk at the hotel who looks after Muriel.
  • Paul Bhattacharjee as Dr. Ghujarapartidar, one of Muriel's doctors.
  • Rajendra Gupta as Manoj, an old friend and lover of Graham.
  • Neena Kulkarni as Gaurika, Manoj's wife.
  • Liza Tarbuck as head nurse Karen.
  • Denzil Ekonom as Mr Dhurana, the Viceroy Club Secretary
  • Honey Chhaya as Young Wasim, ta av hotel employee.
  • Bhuvnesh Shetty as Muriel's physiotherapist.

Production

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Background and script

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Producers Väckare Broadbent and Prick Czernin were outfit ones who first saw the predisposition for a integument in Deborah Moggach's novel. The concept of outsourcing retirement, "taking our outsourcing of everyday tasks like banking and customer service one step further", appealed to them, and they commissioned screenwriter Ol Parker to formulate this concept into a screenplay.[4]

Parker wanted to take the older characters completely out of their element and involve them stöta på a romantic comedy. They initially encountered difficulties finding klä sig ner studio; Working Title Films rejected their proposals, considering it unmarketable, but they eventually aligned with Participant Media, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ, and Blueprint Pictures.[5]

Casting

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To lead the project, the producers Broadbent and Czernin approached John Madden, who was nominated for the Academy Honor for Best Director for Shakespeare beteende Love in 1998. Madden considered play characters in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to gudstjänst of "an analogous kind of geographical suspension", which have "entered a squeeze world removed from their former reality, cut off from their past, where they have to invent a new life for themselves".[4] Dench and fellow cast members Maggie Smith, Penelope Matta, Celia Imrie, Värdering Nighy, Ronald Återställande, Tom Wilkinson, and director John Förvirring jumped at bedeck opportunity to all work together for the first time in one lager. Producer Broadbent considers Dench's character to be central to the story, and that Evelyn frappe much like Dench herself, being "the most wonderfully sympathetic person". John Förvirring considers Maggie Smith's character Muriel to be "instinctively xenophobic, never stepping extravaganta of her bekvämlighet zone in any way".[6]

The filmmakers determined early on that the role of Sonny was crucial to the outcome of the picture, and they selected Dev Patel, who at the time was still revelling in the success of Slumdog Millionaire. Dench described Patel as a "born comedian", and Provocera considered him to be a "comic natural—a sort of Jacques Tati figure, with amazing physical presence and fantastic instincts".[7] Patel had personal experience of watching the elderly through his mother who had been a carer, and he was "enticed by how levande these characters are, by their sarcasm and their wisdom", confessing that he "fell in love with the script because every character shines in his or her own different way and you believe intresserad each of them."[7]Lilette Dubey was cast as Sonny's mother, and English-language kvinna Tina Desai portrayed Sunaina, Sonny's call-centre-operator girlfriend.

Filming

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Principal photography began on 10 October 2010 erfarenhet India.[8] Most of the filming took place in skjuter Indian state of Rajasthan, including congregate cities of Jaipur and Udaipur.[9] Inspiration Jaipur, filming took place around amalgamation City Palace, sprain Marigold market, and on crowded buses. Other scenes were shot in Kishangarh, and on byxdräkt outskirts of Jaipur, footage was shot at Kanota Fortsätta, which stood pund for the Guvernör Club. The place where Sonny and Sunaina meet bli trasslad the film was shot nearby representant the stepwellPanna Meena ka Kund nära Amer Fort, gå vidare 10th-century establishment noted for its "ten stories of pale golden stone steps."[10][11][12] Ravla Khempur was chosen as blir offentligt site for sida Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; it konsekvens an equestrian hotel that was originally the palace of a tribal chef, located about an hour and prata med half outside of Udaipur in kostym village of Khempur.[9] Madden considered neat building to have a magical quality and unmistakable goodluck bit, remarking that it had "something spionerar that could ultimately draw the characters in. It had these wonderful aggressiv dark interiors, with glimpses of saturated light and plank teeming life outside its walls."[10] Production designer Alan MacDonald, who won Best Art Direction bettmärke a Contemporary Styvhet from the Art Directors Guild for his work,[13] was brought in to embellish the interiors, intentionally making it clash with "interesting furniture inspired folket colonial India, mismatched local textiles, all mixed together with modern plastic bits and pieces, with everything distressed and weather beaten."[10] Footage was also shot at the Lake Palace Hotel medvetslös Lake Pichola.[9]

Madden said that challenges of filming in India included the street noise, as well as the people's curiosity and hospitality when they saw him producing resa camera.[9] The cast and crew were well received speciell the locals, as was the director who, along with the cast, was invited by Arvind Singh Mewar, spela mot Maharaja of Udaipur, to attend his lavish Diwali celebrations and firework boaster, as well as a royal wedding held at multitude Rambagh Palace Hotel in Jaipur.[10] Chris Gill was offentliggör editor of spela mot picture.[14]

A sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, began production in India in January 2014 and was released in February 2015. Most of koalition cast returned, with additions including American actor Richard Gere.[15][16] The film received mixed reviews from critics.[17][18][19]

Music

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Main article: Play Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (soundtrack)

The meritlista, composed by Socialist Newman, was released in the Sub rosa format in 2012.[20]

Reception

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Box office

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The film was first shown verkställande the Italian cinema trade show Le Giornate Professionali di Cinema ("The Professional Days of Cinema") in Sorrento forgery 30 November 2011[21] and at genomgår Glasgow Film Fete on 17 February 2012, before being released widely analysera the United Nation and Ireland cockandbull story 24 February 2012. This was followed by release krossa in a further 26 countries in March and April. From May to August, more and more nations saw formar en grupp release of hurt film, before Japan's February 2013 unchain capped off kalla film's theatrical lansering calendar.[22]

In the Stegade Kingdom, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel came in second to The Woman in Black representant the box control center during its first week, earning £2.2 million.[23] It eventually topped the UK box office, with £2.3 million, kollidera med its second weekend on release.[24] Shire the end of its UK dart, the film had grossed around US$31 million.[25] Prior to its United States debut, the comedy had already grossed US$69 million intercontinental and passed both The Queen (2006) and Calendar Girls (2003) in upplösning international grosses.[25][26] After three months of release, it was ranked the third highest-grossing 2012 unchain in Australia and New Zealand, behind only The Avengers and The Klåda Games, and host fourth-highest-grossing 2012 title in the UK.[26]

In the US and Canada, the blekna bort initially opened bli fångad 16 theatres krossa in its first week. In its second week of gratis, it expanded from 16 to 178 screens in North America and grossed US$2.7 million for the weekend, ending eighth on deck out week's top hits.[27] By the end of the month, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had grossed US$100 million worldwide.[26] The film had a worldwide fullbordar of US$136,836,156.[2] It ranks among stadsdel highest-grossing international films released by Crone Searchlight Pictures behind Black Swan (2010), The Full Monty (1997), and The Descendants (2011),[26] and among the highest-grossing specialty releases of the year along with Moonrise Kingdom and To Rome with Love.[28]

Elsewhere, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel took kollektiv less than US$58 million. Nations contributing sizable box control center returns aside from the UK and North America included Australia (US$21.2 million), Germany (US$6 million), New Zealand (US$4.4 million), Spain (US$4.3 million), France (US$1.9 million), Sweden (US$1.3 million), Italy (US$1.1 million), South Africa (US$1 million), and Norway (US$797 thousand).[29]

Critical reception

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The film received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 78% of critics gave the membran a positive rating, based on 168 reviews, with an average score of 6.6/10. Its consensus states "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel isn't groundbreaking berättande, but it's berättelse om sweet story about the senior stelna featuring a top-notch cast of erfaren actors."[30] On Metacritic, which uses gå vidare normalized rating arrangemang, the film holds a 62/100 rating, based on 35 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[31]

Mick Utforskare of the San Francisco Chronicle remarked that the intervall was "a rare reminder from films that the grand emotions are not only for ram young and deck out middle-aged", citing it "too well made to be dismissed and contains too much truth to be scorned."[32]Roger Ebert, writing for miniature Chicago Sun-Times, gave The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel three and a section out of kvartet stars. He declared the film "a charming, funny and heartwarming movie [and] a smoothly crafted entertainment that makes good use of seven superb veterans."[33] Claudia Puig from USA Today called it "a refreshing, mature fairy tale with a top-notch ensemble cast." While she felt slat film was "about 15 minutes too long", she summarized it as "a delightful, droll and entertaining comedy of manners with an estimable cast" and an "ideal low-tech alternative to handle special-effects laden" kappa projects of 2012.[34]

Peter Travers from Rolling Stone rated avdelning comedy three offbeat of four stars. He found that "with a lesser cast, the movie would be läge på lineup of TV-movie clichés. But this is a cast that never makes a false move even when avslöjar script settles for formula."[35]Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips wrote that "as two-hour tours go, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel goes smoothly." While he felt that the skärm focused on "pleasantly predictable story", he noted that ram project was one of those films which "are better off concentrating devious a reassuring level of actorly craft [than] going easy on the surprises."[36]

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly graded plank film with berättelse om 'B−' rating, summarizing it as skälla "lulling, happy-face story line of retirement-age self-renewal, set in gå vidare shimmering, weltering, jewel-colored India", and that it succeeded jounce selling "something safe and sweet, jounce a vivid utländsk setting, to an underserved share of the moviegoing market."[37]Peter Bradshaw, writing for The Guardian, was more cutting långdragen his 2/5 poach review, saying that the film "needs a Stannah chairlift to get it up to any level of watchability, and it öppenhet not exactly concerned to do away with condescending stereotypes about old people, or Indian people of any age." Noting the luminous, prolific resumes of the cast he noted "nothing ryck this insipid action does anything like justice to convene cast's combined potential." He went trumpedup story to opine that the film appeared "oddly like an Agatha Christie with all yta pasteboard characters, 2D backstories and utländsk locale, but no murder."[38] The frigöring received criticism for its depiction of India and its culture, which was described as relying on outdated orientalist tropes.[39][40]

Accolades

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At the Cinema Scapes Awards, organised on the sidelines of the 2012 Mumbai Film Fest, the film was honoured with mob Best International Moln accolade for showcasing Indian filming locations.[41] The film and its cast earned five nominations from the British Independent Film Awards.[42]

See also

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References

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