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Writers:
James McManus (writer)
Krutin Patel (screenplay)
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Its about choices!
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The only goal of an ageing Asian-American widow is to see her son and rebellious daughter (described as an American Born Confused Deshi or ABCD) married off to respectable Indian families. | add synopsis
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an awful attempt at describing the indian-american experience more (23 total)

Cast

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Madhur Jaffrey ... Anju

Faran Tahir ... Raj

Sheetal Sheth ... Nina

Aasif Mandvi ... Ashok

David Ari ... Brian

Jennifer Dorr White ... Julia
Adriane Forlana Erdos ... Tejal
Rex Young ... Sam
Gil Grail ... Mark
Bob Bonnet ... Cop
Alexander Lasky ... Gordon
David Mann ... Tony

Janan Raouf ... Jennifer
Vince Byrne Sr. ... MacKenzie
Nicki Cochrane ... Asha
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UK:105 min
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Although Adriane Forlana Erdos is of Italian and Hungarian descent, she got the part of Indian immigrant Tejal because she looks Indian and had studied and become adept at classical Indian dance, another attribute required of the character. more
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References Saturday Night Fever (1977) more

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an awful attempt at describing the indian-american experience, 15 January 2002
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Author: bdeshi from maryland

i've been watching a lot of western-type indian movies recently, and ABCD has got to be the worst of them all. Although Bombay Boys was pretty stupid, and American Desi was just silly, they are much more polished than this movie. the number of inconsistencies in the movie are astounding. as the name name of the movie suggests, one would assume the characters are born in america. they're not. it is unclear at which point the children came to america, and it's even hard to tell from their accents. the choices of the main characters do not seem realistic, and their actions leave the audience with a bad taste in their mouths. if you choose to watch this film, take a pad and pen with you, so you can log all of the inconsistencies. it'll be fun.

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