Bollywood-style ‘Basmati Blues’ with Brie Larson is a big miss

Bollywood meets “La La Land,” not in a fortuitous way, via “Basmati Blues,” a broadly played though vibrantly photographed musical romantic-comedy that fails to find a happy medium between cute-and-clever and simply cloying.

A spirited Brie Larson plays Linda Watt, an accomplished but naïve New…