Leela

Indian star Dimple Kapadia shines in this family melodrama that takes some surprising turns and addresses the issues of cultural assimilation and friction between immigrant parents and their American-born children more subtlety than less polished features like ABCD and AMERICAN DESI (both 2001). Shaken by her mother's death, Bombay University professor Leela (Dimple Kapadia) takes stock and finds her life wanting: Approaching 40, she's been married for two decades to Nashaad (Vinod Khanna), a famous poet and singer some years her senior, and is afraid she's accomplished nothing. She takes a job as a visiting professor of South Asian studies in California, where her s...