Ball & Chain

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Ball & Chain ★★½ 2004 (PG-13)

Although raised in America, Ameet (Malhotra) and Saima (Ray) can't escape the customs of India when their respective parents arrange their marriage. They want to break their engagement, so Ameet decides that if he behaves outrageously enough, his prospective in-laws will be so dismayed that they will call things off. Only the more time Ameet and Saima spend together, the more they realize that the arrangement could actually work. 90m/C DVD . Lisa Ray, Kal Penn, Purva Bedi, Suni Malhotra, Ismail Bashey; D: Shriaz Jafri; W: Thomas Mortimer; C: Peter Simonite; M: Deane Ogden.

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