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Cinema's prodigal daughter Jennifer Lynch braves the unmapped territory of Bollywood-Hollywood movie making, where chaos is the process and filmmaking doubles as a crash course in acceptance and self-realization.
Release Date
2012-04-28
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6.2
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Jennifer Lynch's Bollywood Odyssey
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