Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Arslan Ghazi Theme of the movie is presented very well. Deepa mehta did a great job. Whole movie goes wonderfully until climax. Climax is totally unpredictable and little boring. All actors did fine work especially preity zinta. I never expected such a good movie from preity zinta. Cinematography is presented in a very good manner. Absolutely worth watching movie. You will find the characters close to someone you know. You will love the movie as it goes forward and probably won't want to left the chair you are sitting on.Language (punjabi) is quiet hard to understand as i am a pakistani myself. I never expected such a good movie from preity zinta.

Alex Deleon A HEAVEN ON EARTH, (Bollywood) Viewed at Florence Indian Film Festival, River to River, Dec. 2010Declared the Best Feature in the week's competition was Deepa Mehta's latest offering "A Heaven on Earth" , a more appropriate title for which would have been "An Absolute Hell On Earth". Deepa, a Canada based offshore Indian filmmaker, has been turning out critically acclaimed award winning Indian films since 1991, but this story of a beautiful mail-order Indian bride who comes to Toronto to marry a despicable Punjabi psychotic named Rocky, and is subjected to nothing but brutal abuse by both him and his hateful mother, is arguably her worst film ever. A magic love potion, given the hapless bride by a black Jamaican co-worker to change her husband's attitude, brings on (apparently) some sort of hallucinatory encounter with Rocky, who now inexplicably loves her tenderly. But the "old Rocky" sees this hallucination (or whatever it was) as a marital betrayal, and the poor girl is subjected to the good old Cobra Test to prove her fidelity. It so happens that a healthy Indian Cobra lives in their Canadian back yard and she has to reach into its nest and grab it, to prove the purity of intentions -- if the snake doesn't kill her outright she will be accepted back into the fold to resume her role as the family punching bag.The only saving grace of this study in sadism, mixed with ridiculous metaphysics, is a gripping performance by one of Bollywood's prettiest leading ladies, Preity Zinta, in an uncharacteristically somber role, but looking prettier than ever. The selection of this horrid piece of domestic depredation as "Best film of the week" can only indicate that the selection committee must have been dominated by a team of hard-core Italian masochists. Earlier I said this was "one to watch for". Having now watched it dutifully, I would have to revise that and say this is one to avoid like the plague.ALEXFARBA FILM WEBSITE: http://www.alexfarbafilm.com

raman_arora This is one of the worst movie I have ever seen.The starting 10mins is the only good part of the movie showing traditional Punjabi music / songs. After that it becomes slow... slower and slowest... and never picks up the pace.... This was 106 minute movie... and feels like 306 minutes there are pin drop silent moments which could have been done better by adding background score... There were many scenes which makes no sense or could have been easily edited .... so that was also not upto the mark...Preity Zinta did good acting... her good work was literally wasted in this worthless movie....I would not recommend this movie to anyone... *** CONTAINS SPOILER *** No one expects adding factitious stuff like KING COBRA in the film.. this is really good topic and could have been done / presented in much better way... I had very high expectations from a reputed director like Deepa Mehta...Also the place where the kid throws the dentures of his grandpa into drain should be after he is told that his bed will be taken by his uncle... so cinematography is not up to the par either...

Pratik Jasani This definitely makes one wonder as to what a woman has to go through and in particular if she has to move from one country to another and live with people that she, at first, doesn't really know, she has to adjust as well as adopt to the way they live. A woman, who is married, leaves northern India, to live with her husband who she is meeting for the first time as well as her in laws, is a very good example of this setting, which captivates one from the beginning till the end.Directed and written by Deepa Mehta, and known as "Videsh – Heaven on Earth," in other parts of the world, the movie stars, Preity Zinta, Balinder Johal, Rajinder Singh Cheema and Vansh Bhardwaj.The theme of this also deals with domestic violence, which, in many parts of the world, is on the increase and how it really affects children and this is shown in its true colours in this film. Preity Zinta, what can be said about her performance? Absolutely spot on as is the performance by Vansh Bhardwaj. But what really captures the mood of this movie is the photographic technique used by the director – semiotics, where some scenery is filmed in black and white to make it a bit conspicuous from the others and in particular one of the Niagara Falls. There are certain aspects of the movie, which also make it a bit light and will probably make one laugh.With films such as "Water," "Bollywood / Hollywood," "Earth" and "Fire," Director Deepa Mehta has gone on to add this one on a list of films that can be said, is worth watching.