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Salaam - Namaste

Our first movie of the year was Salaam - Namaste. I was at home sick with flu-like symptoms. So, while working on taxes, we decided to watch the movie. The subject matter was quite interesting and the main story was presented quite alright. It was a good change from usual movies with no parental involvment for both leading characters. Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta acted pretty well without any overacting.

I was almost ready to forgive all the stupidity with the Bihari Crocodile Dundee, the Malayalee Radio station-owner and the Bangladeshi restaurant-owner, but the filmmakers just pushed me over the edge with "Ben and Jerry's Dark Belgian Chocolate ice cream". Why don't they do a little bit of research? Don't they know that there is no such ice cream made by Ben&Jerry. I didn't just depend on my vast knowledge of this ice cream brand, but I went to their website and also searched the internet extensively just to make sure.

If they were going to mention it in the movie 20 times, at least they should have made sure that it exists. There are many fine flavors such as "Chunky Monkey", "Coffee Heath Bar Crunch" or "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough", just to name a few, that could have done the trick. But, nooooo. The morons had to piss me off. Now, a fine movie by Bollywood standards, will always be remembered as the movie that got a "Ben and Jerry's" flavor wrong. Idiots!!! Also, Preity Zinta's attempt at reproducing Meg Ryan's restaurant eating scene from "When Harry met Sally" fell flat on its face. Preity needs to study that movie a little more. Or, maybe I was just too upset with the ice cream flavor fiasco at that time to notice Preity's fine performance.