Program 29: Karma Calling (Trailer)

KARMA CALLING - Program 29 - Sunday, May 3 - 02:30 PM - Directors Guild of America, Theater 1 -

What happens when a bunch of hapless Hindus from Hoboken get mixed up with an underworld don with connections to an Indian call center? And what happens when a good Jersey girl falls for a smooth operator thousands of miles away? Meet the Raj family: deep in denial about its creeping credit card debt, dodging collection notices and phone calls. When eldest daughter Sonal finally picks up the phone, she meets Rob Roy, a call center operator like no other. Little does she know that he's oceans away. Her brother Shyam, a college drop out, is too busy dreaming of becoming the next Dr. Dre (peddling his hip-hop album Hapa Means Weed in Japanese) to notice the bills piling up. But romance is in the air for him too, in the form of Radha, a village girl newly-arrived in America to marry a Dollar Store mogul. As for youngest daughter Jamuna, she just wants a Bat Mitzvah - and another bag of Doritos. Add to this mix Mausi, a chai-fueled Mary Poppins fresh from India, hell bent on getting this meat-eating, energy-wasting, spendthrift family in line. Little does she know that the Gods have it all figured out. When karma calls, you can't hang up.

(USA, 2008) Dir: Sarba Das; Scr.: Sarthak Das, Sarba Das
Video, 90 mins, Color, Narrative, English

Preceded by WHAT HAPPENS ON THE FOURTH DATE
(USA, 2008) Dir.: Vijay Mathew
Video, 14 mins, Color, Narrative, English

Margaret, who has been on three previous dates with Jonathan, decides to invite him back to her place after their fourth date. But when Jonathan seems less than eager to get things going, Margaret starts to wonder what's up. All is explained by the arrival of a third 'person' in this surreal comedy about dating, with a Freudian twist.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• los
• angeles
• asian
• pacific
• film
• festival
• 2009
• visual
• communications
• karma
• calling
• trailer

[flowerpowerzz]

Yay ! Looking forward to this ! Already saved on my Netflix queue too !