Simone Ashley's entertaining and sweet new rom-com, Picture This, is a great new take on a beloved genre, and its inspiration is slightly surprising.

For fans of that era of films, Picture This starring Simone Ashley (Bridgerton) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After) could be light at the end of the tunnel. While it might not be quite as successful as those stalwarts of the rom-com genre,

Authentic or not, a steady drumbeat has declared the mashup genre a shell of its formal self. Once boasting star-studded titles like "You've Got Mail" and " My Best Friend's Wedding," recent releases seem instead to bludgeon that classic sentimentality with overly saccharine dialogue or plots driven exclusively by sex scenes.

From lehengas to South Asian jewelry to Bollywood choreography, Ashley's latest work showcases the glitz of South Asian weddings.

Ashley got to fulfill her own wish in Picture This, a new Amazon-backed rom-com that topped the streaming charts during its opening weekend on Prime Video. Offering a fresh take o

Whenever the West decides to ‘represent’ the non-resident Indian community on screen, Indians instinctively reach for a pinch of salt—sometimes, a whole fistful. There are only two ways to react: either be mildly pleased that we made it into the film at all or groan at how they have managed to get everything wrong,

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