At first, I was somewhat dismissive of ‘The Big Sick‘. I had heard that the story was based on Kumail Nanjiani‘s real life romance with Emily Gordon, who co-wrote the script with him, but in the beginning I had feared that we were going into some well-worn territory. I saw the sequence where the parents, Azmat and Sharmeer (Anupar Kher and Zenobia Shroff) were having several young Pakistani women, “dropping by” every time Kumail was home for dinner, all set-ups in an attempt to arraigned a relationship and preferably a marriage, and all I could think of was that same sequence from ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding‘. I know, it’s a cheap shot, but that was my first instinct and, eh, yeah, I don’t know how many of you have gone back to see that movie recently, but it doesn’t hold up on multiple viewings as much as people would think.
- 2/20/2018
- by David Baruffi
- Age of the Nerd
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