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Flavors

2004, Movie, NR, 118 mins

Flavors: Review

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Writer-director Raj Nidimoru's culture-clash comedy juggles a large and attractive cast of characters united by their Indian descent and the fact that they are in America, where they're coping with a variety of work and family pressures. Rad (Anupam Mittal) is marrying an American woman, Jenni (Jicky Schnee), and his old-fashioned but unusually open-minded parents (Anjan Srivastava, Bharati Achrekar) have come from India for the wedding. They would love a traditional Indian wedding, while Jenni was planning a Christian wedding, but everyone is willing to give a little and a cross-cultural event begins to take shape. Rad's friend and coworker, Nikhil (Gaurang Vyas), buries himself in work and fails to notice how bored and unhappy his wife, Sangita (Sireesha Katragadda), is in America. When he's abruptly fired, he's too embarrassed to tell Sangita or any of their friends. Rachna (Pooja Kumar) and Kartik (Reef Kareem) are old pals who just won't admit that they were made for one another, even though the high point of their days are the phone calls they make from opposite coasts to gossip, tease each other and generally goof around. At her aunt's insistence, Rachna has even agreed to meet with Ramana (Manan Katohora), who's a bit of a stiff but has the education and entrepreneurial ambitions that spell good marriage material. Vivek (Mohit Shah), a new arrival, pines for a girl he loved from afar in India, even though he never so much as spoke to her; he lives with slackers Jas (Gaurav Rawal) and Ashok (Punit Jasuja) in a guest house provided by Candy (Rishma Malik), who happens to be a close friend of Jenni's. The film begins at Jenni and Rad's wedding, which is rudely interrupted by the annoying ring of Kartik's ever-present cell phone, then flashes back to several weeks earlier, as the various characters cross paths and hash out their dreams and discontents. Like several of the characters, Nidimoru is a veteran of Silicon Valley and his mild, sweet-natured ensemble comedy is clearly aimed at an international audience: Shot in English and Hindi, it's relatively short and 100-percent free of the lavish musical numbers that characterize the majority of mainstream Indian features. The cast, a mix of beauty-contest winners, models, veteran actors and newcomers, is as diverse as the characters they play and work together surprisingly smoothly. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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