FORMAT: DVD
A pure Mills & Boon romance whose amusing side does not successfully conceal its arbitrary plotting and weak characterization.
This is the story of an Anglo-Indian mother's determination to marry-off her Plain-Jane daughter before the parent dies. This becomes such a desperate desire that she turns to serial-killing those who have turned her daughter down for being too fat or too sexually-unattractive or whatever - as in Serial Mom.
The cultural specificity is such that some of the humor will be lost on non-Sikh and non-Jewish audience members. This is made-up for with a broad horror-comedy making pointed visual references to Alien and Carrie. Like so many comedies about familial oppression (eg, Rhoda), there is an abiding love for both the community and the religion being parodied (in the absence of anything better) that offsets the oppression, since the parent here is - rightly or wrongly - wanting the best for the child.
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