Advanced Search >
Help Me Search

Movies

Weekend Box Office
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores

Wide Releases
Now In Theaters

sort by namesort by score

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

Limited Releases
Now In Theaters

sort by namesort by score

58 (Untitled)
96 35 Shots of Rum
56 Adam
39 Adventures of Power
66 Afterschool
73 Amreeka
49 Antichrist
76 Baader Meinhof Complex, The
86 Beaches of Agnes, The
71 Big Fan
65 Black Dynamite
76 Bliss
26 Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, The
44 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
81 Bright Star
76 Broken Embraces
70 Bronson
62 Cloud 9
65 Coco Before Chanel
69 Cold Souls
60 Collapse
82 Cove, The
75 Crude
82 Damned United, The
53 Dare
50 Defamation
67 Departures
70 Earth Days
85 Education, An
55 Endgame
88 Fantastic Mr. Fox
31 Fix
49 Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution
80 Food, Inc.
xx From Mexico with Love
28 Gentlemen Broncos
72 Good Hair
89 Goodbye Solo
63 Horse Boy, The
74 House of the Devil, The
xx How to Seduce Difficult Women
26 I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
70 It Might Get Loud
46 Killing Kasztner
43 Little Traitor, The
34 Looking for Palladin
80 Lorna's Silence
46 Love Hurts
84 Maid, The
45 Mammoth
75 Messenger, The
55 Missing Person, The
59 More Than a Game
34 Motherhood
62 My One and Only
48 New York, I Love You
66 No Impact Man
26 Oh My God
68 Paranormal Activity
68 Paris
79 Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire
73 Red Cliff
69 September Issue, The
79 Serious Man, A
65 Skin
41 Splinterheads
42 Staten Island
50 Stoning of Soraya M., The
58 Storm
82 Sun, The
49 Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon
73 That Evening Sun
61 Trucker
49 Turning Green
83 U2 3D
45 Uncertainty
67 Visual Acoustics
32 War on Kids
67 Way We Get By, The
65 Wedding Song, The
xx White on Rice
59 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
74 Woman in Berlin, A
43 Women in Trouble
69 Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

American Desi

EMAILPRINTEros International

American Desi reviews
50
8.5 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 7 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 21 votes
Read user comments
Rate this movie >

Movie Info

Genre(s): Romance

Written by: Piyush Dinker Pandya

Directed by: Piyush Dinker Pandya

Release Date:
Theatrical: March 16, 2001

Running Time: 100 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not rated

Starring Deep Katdare, Ronobir Lahiri, Rizwan Manji, Kal Penn, Purva Bedi, Sunita Param, and Anil Kumar

A fun-loving romantic comedy focusing on the lives of second generation Indians in America. The story is set on a college campus and follows the exploits of an Indian freshman whose path in life takes a sharp detour down a road to self-discovery. (Eros Entertainment)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Mr. Pandya tells a story of conflicted assimilation that's been told before, but he and his exuberant cast invest it with fresh energy and winning humor.

Read Full Review >
50

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The script is often obvious and much of the acting is amateurish (Rakesh's comic sidekicks are just dismal), though Purva Bedi is a shining exception — she's got star quality to burn.

Read Full Review >
50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

With a few exceptions, the Indian characters are two-dimensional buffoons whose traditions are presented as silly quirks meant for cheap laughs.

Read Full Review >
50

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

The subject is likable and the story has possibilities, but why does every single performance sink into a self-indulgent mess of hammy overacting?

Read Full Review >
50

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Most of it has to do with the ways younger Indian-Americans keep their culture alive in the United States and the ways they don't.

Read Full Review >
50

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Clubfooted but earnest, Pandya's movie never forgets about its second-gen issues, but never quite plumbs them, either.

Read Full Review >
38

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Despite some genuinely funny scenes, American Desi turns out to be inferior to the as yet unreleased "ABCD" and even last year's "Chutney Popcorn."

Read Full Review >

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 21 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jay M. gave it a7:
Worth a watch definitely / as someone said its a comedy its meant to be funny (in bits)...some of it tongue in cheek someone it firmly tongue in bottom... leaving unfamiliar taste in ones mouth. Its part of a tradition which is still finding its feet in est cross over to west movies. Good attempt.

Darling Angel gave it a 10:
This is the coolest movie in the whole wide world i was laughing so hard kris is hotttttttttt i luv u kris email me plzzzzzz luv only urs darling angel.

Marc D. gave it a 4:
Decent, but I much prefer the short called "Diwali" by Nick Sivakumaran which is on the festival circuit right now. It packs quite an emotional punch.

Kyle gave it a 10:
Love it.

Javed S. gave it a 10:
One of the best movies i've ever seen!! Ajay was the best! Go and see this movie.

[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
Sweet movie!!!

S. Z. gave it a 9:
It was a good movie, but it was corny in some parts; oh and Ajay (Kal Penn) was the best and funniest:)!!

Read more user comments >

Popular on CBS sites: SEC Football | NFL | Video Game Cheats | iPhone | Video Game Reviews | Notebooks | Antivirus Software

About CBS Interactive | Jobs | Advertise

© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy (UPDATED) | Terms of Use