Why imitate a movie if you are going to do a worse job of it? “Touch of Pink” is nothing but “Wedding Banquet” and “Bend It Like Beckham” mixed together and made worse. The Cary Grant character is just filler for a vacuous film. Don’t be fooled: this is just as Eurocentric as it can be. Just because a man of color is on the cover doesn’t mean that people of color aren’t thrust to the margins. In this film, the white lover’s body is seen in stages of undress and with other partners. We never get to see much of the Indian man’s body. He is chaste while his lover gets to taste the smorgasbord. This film and “Chutney Popcorn” can battle for the worst, sell-outish movies of all time. Don’t get me started on how vexed I was that I spent money to see this waste of film. When awesome movies like “Khush” and “Fire” exist, don’t waste your time on lightweight fodder like this.

A very slow moving script, misdirected direction, and a sappy, and do I mean sappy ending really throw this film a curveball. I enjoyed these characters, especially the real relationship between a gay Muslim man and his mother. I didn’t care much for his boyfriend, he was manipulative and a cheater. Frankly our hero could have done better, and derserved better. The ending was a little too tidy for me. These were complex characters in a complex situation. The really stupid part of the film is the imaginary friend/spirit guide in the guise of the ghost of Cary Grant. This part was very distracting, and was used to lighten the mood. For the collector this movie has very little importance nor entertainment. Watch “Torch Song Trilogy” again. It’ll have more suprises and laughs even on the third go around. A real disapointment.