Kites (2010) on Netflix
Jay Ray teaches dance in Las Vegas and marries immigrant women for green cards. Gina, a casino owner's daughter, falls for him. Her brother's fiancée is a woman Jay has already wed.
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- Rotten Tomatoes72%
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Plot summary
Jay Ray works as a dance teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada, and makes extra money by wedding immigrant women so that they can obtain green cards. Gina, whose father Bob Grover owns a casino, becomes interested in him, and he cooperates, since a match with her would bring wealth. Gina's brother is Tony, a violent man engaged to a woman from Mexico whom Jay calls Linda, and whom he had married as part of his arrangement. Jay and Linda talk about ending their marriage before the wedding. Tony shows up with a gun and strikes her. Linda knocks him down, and the pair drive for the Mexican border while Tony and the police chase them. Jay's friend Robin supplies false passports and identity papers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kites (2010)
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- Kites became the first Bollywood film to reach the weekend top ten in North America, opening at No. 10 with $958,673, though My Name is Khan had a larger first-weekend gross there with $1.9 million from 120 theaters.
- Deepika Padukone was approached to star opposite Hrithik Roshan in Kites, but she turned down the offer for undisclosed reasons.
- Kites opened on 208 screens in North America, making it the largest Bollywood release there up to that time; it was booked on 3,000 screens in India and 500 screens worldwide, according to distributor Reliance BIG Entertainment.
- A second English-language version, Kites: The Remix, was presented by Brett Ratner and recut by his regular editor Mark Helfrich, with new music by Graeme Revell using remix techniques developed for the series Kung Faux.
