Night Of Henna

Writer-producer-director Hassan Zee's self-pronounced "first Pakistani-American film," a drama about young people trapped between their own American dreams and their Pakistani parents' determination to hold on to centuries-old traditions, is earnest and clumsy in equal parts. It opens with a bride (the stunningly beautiful Pooja Kumar) in traditional wedding regalia, her beautiful face a mask of unhappiness. The story then flashes back to six months earlier, as the same young woman, Hava, arrives at the San Francisco airport, where she's reunited with her parents, Abdul (Girja Shankar) and Rafia (Ponni Chesser), and her sullen, thoroughly Americanized younger brother...