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Karma Calling
Karma Calling
Director: Sarba Das
Writers Sarba Das & Sarthak Das
Runtime: 90 minutes
In English and Hindi
Screening sponsored by New Jersey South Asian Independent CineFest
Director Sarba Das will participate in a Q&A following the screening
The Audience Award Winner at the recent Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival, posits that when karma calls, you cant hang up. 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? For one thing, the phone keeps ringing. The Raj family is 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 a call center operator like no other, Rob Roy. Little does she know that hes 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 from India, arriving in America to marry a Dollar Store mogul. As for the youngest daughter Jamuna, well, she just wants a Bat Mitzvah. Narrated by award-winning actor Tony Sirico (aka Paulie Walnuts of The Sopranos), the film is a snapshot of our hyper-globalized world through the eyes of a Garden state family just trying to get by. Its a quintessential American tale about unlikely alliances, outsourcing, and outwitting. And at its heart, it is the story of a family learning to live together.
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LocationDavis, Saperstein & Salomon - Screening Room
375 Cedar Lane
Teaneck, NJ 07666
United States
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