Exclusive: Sony Pictures International Productions has acquired global rights to the award-winning comedy Americanish, marking the feature directorial debut of Iman Zawahry. Specifics as to plans for the pic’s distribution have not yet been disclosed.
Written by Aizzah Fatima and Zawahry, Americanish follows sisters Sam (Aizzah Fatima) and Maryam Khan (Salena Qureshi), and their cousin Ameera (Shenaz Treasury), as they navigate love, careers and familial pressures in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Zawahry’s first feature won the Audience Award in its 2021 world premiere at San Francisco’s CAAMFest before going on to win a total of 25 awards at festivals around the world. Pic’s cast also includes Mo‘s Mo Amer, as well as Lillette Dubey (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Kapil Talwalkar (Charmed), Ajay Naidu (The Good Nurse), Godfrey (South Side), George Wendt (Christmas with the Campbells), David Rasche (Succession), Natasha Chandel (Seal Team), Purva Bedi (One Of Us Is Lying...
Written by Aizzah Fatima and Zawahry, Americanish follows sisters Sam (Aizzah Fatima) and Maryam Khan (Salena Qureshi), and their cousin Ameera (Shenaz Treasury), as they navigate love, careers and familial pressures in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Zawahry’s first feature won the Audience Award in its 2021 world premiere at San Francisco’s CAAMFest before going on to win a total of 25 awards at festivals around the world. Pic’s cast also includes Mo‘s Mo Amer, as well as Lillette Dubey (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Kapil Talwalkar (Charmed), Ajay Naidu (The Good Nurse), Godfrey (South Side), George Wendt (Christmas with the Campbells), David Rasche (Succession), Natasha Chandel (Seal Team), Purva Bedi (One Of Us Is Lying...
- 1/11/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Joe Witkowski (The Wilds)and Doralynn Mui (Riverdale) will join the drama of Peacock’s One Of Us Is Lying, taking on major recurring roles for the YA series’ second season. They will appear opposite stars Marianly Tejada, Cooper van Grootel, Annalisa Cochrane, Chibuikem Uche, Jessica McLeod and Melissa Collazo.
Based on Karen M. McManus’s best-seller, One Of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect and everyone has something to hide.
Witkowski will play will play brother of Jake (Barrett Carnahan) who has come back to Bayview to find out the truth about what happened to his little brother. He’s even more handsome and charming than his brother, and he might be more dangerous too.
Mui will play Fiona, a new girl at Bayview who causes surprising complications for Nate and Bronwyn.
Based on Karen M. McManus’s best-seller, One Of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect and everyone has something to hide.
Witkowski will play will play brother of Jake (Barrett Carnahan) who has come back to Bayview to find out the truth about what happened to his little brother. He’s even more handsome and charming than his brother, and he might be more dangerous too.
Mui will play Fiona, a new girl at Bayview who causes surprising complications for Nate and Bronwyn.
- 5/11/2022
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Queen of Glory Review Video — Queen of Glory (2021) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by Nana Mensah, written by Nana Mensah, and starring Nana Mensah, Meeko Gattuso, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Adam Leon, Ward Horton, Elia Monte-Brown, Purva Bedi, Anya Migdal, Daniel Reece, Alok Tewari, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Russell G. Jones, Sholanty Taylor, Jocelyn [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Queen Of Glory (2021): An Assured, Confident Film that will Move Audiences with Compelling Scenes...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Queen Of Glory (2021): An Assured, Confident Film that will Move Audiences with Compelling Scenes...
- 12/17/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Queen of Glory Review — Queen of Glory (2021) Film Review from the 20th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Nana Mensah, and starring Nana Mensah, Meeko Gattuso, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Adam Leon, Ward Horton, Elia Monte-Brown, Purva Bedi, Anya Migdal, Daniel Reece, Alok Tewari, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Russell G. Jones, Sholanty Taylor, Jocelyn [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Queen Of Glory: A Heartfelt Character Study that Will Engage Audiences [Tribeca 2021]...
- 6/18/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Studio Soho Distribution has debuted the UK poster and full trailer for Jeremy Hersh’s festival favourite The Surrogate, ahead of its UK release in cinemas (!) on the 9th of July.
The film stars Jasmine Batchelor as Jess, a young woman who is about to become surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend. Batchelor has been winning plaudits for her performance, including her nomination for a Breakthrough Actor award at the IFP Gotham Awards. The film also stars Chris Perfetti, Sullivan Jones, Brooke Bloom, Eboni Booth, William DeMeritt and Purva Bedi.
Here’s the new UK poster which was revealed today.
Plot:
A sensitive insight into the complex issues surrounding surrogacy, The Surrogate follows Jess Harris, a 29-year-old web designer, who is excited to be the surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend Josh and his husband Aaron. Twelve weeks into the pregnancy, a prenatal test comes back with unexpected...
The film stars Jasmine Batchelor as Jess, a young woman who is about to become surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend. Batchelor has been winning plaudits for her performance, including her nomination for a Breakthrough Actor award at the IFP Gotham Awards. The film also stars Chris Perfetti, Sullivan Jones, Brooke Bloom, Eboni Booth, William DeMeritt and Purva Bedi.
Here’s the new UK poster which was revealed today.
Plot:
A sensitive insight into the complex issues surrounding surrogacy, The Surrogate follows Jess Harris, a 29-year-old web designer, who is excited to be the surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend Josh and his husband Aaron. Twelve weeks into the pregnancy, a prenatal test comes back with unexpected...
- 6/10/2021
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
High up on our most anticipated American indie offerings for 2019, the probable gross “rite of passage” exposé of working under the indie film flagships and being at arm’s length of a predator has found its set of players. Joining Julia Garner, Deadline reports that the Matthew Macfadyen, Kristine Froseth, Makenzie Leigh (Sundance Trading Card), Noah Robbins, Dagmara Dominczyk and Purva Bedi are the supporting players on what is tentatively known as The Assistant. With a text that will likely provoke and make everyone pose some hard questions, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel/Casting JonBenet helmer Kitty Green has been hard at work since January. …...
- 4/8/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Kristine Froseth (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Makenzie Leigh (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk) have joined Julia Garner in writer-director Kitty Green’s untitled movie based on a day in the life of one of Harvey Weinstein’s assistants.
James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain), Scott Macaulay (Casting JonBenet) and Jen Dana (Brigsby Bear) are producing the Symbolic Exchange feature whose plot details are being kept under wraps. The movie is currently in production in New York.
Garner (Ozark) will star in the lead role; Macfadyen will play a human resources exec; Froseth will play an applicant to an intern program, with few skills for the job, who is put up in a nice hotel; and Leigh will play an actress auditioning for a film. It is unclear at this stage whether the character of Weinstein will appear in the film. His shadow will certainly loom large.
James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain), Scott Macaulay (Casting JonBenet) and Jen Dana (Brigsby Bear) are producing the Symbolic Exchange feature whose plot details are being kept under wraps. The movie is currently in production in New York.
Garner (Ozark) will star in the lead role; Macfadyen will play a human resources exec; Froseth will play an applicant to an intern program, with few skills for the job, who is put up in a nice hotel; and Leigh will play an actress auditioning for a film. It is unclear at this stage whether the character of Weinstein will appear in the film. His shadow will certainly loom large.
- 4/8/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
TV Picks: “Natural Reboot” premieres Monday, January 5, 2015 at 9Pm Et on Z Living TV Network.In this new series, viewers nominate friends and loved ones who need more than a makeover, they need a ‘make under’. Host Purva Bedi and her team of experts ambush them — then get to work showing them that the key to a healthier, happier lifestyle is ‘less is more’. The team raids pantries, rummages through purses, closets and medicine cabinets – all to help cure their loved ones of whatever stands in their way – unhealthy eating habits, outrageous wardrobe choices, cluttered lives […]...
- 12/29/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Title: KUMARÉ Director: Vikram Gandhi Cast: Vikram Gandhi as Kumaré, Kristen Calgaro, Purva Bedi and disciples Screened at: Core Club, 66 E 55 St., NYC on 6/11/12 Opens: June 20, 2012 “What do we want? Fulfillment! When do we want it? Now! What do we want? Fulfillment! When do we want it? Now!” Now there’s a street demonstration that could theoretically bring out more petitioners than a labor dispute would attract since, when you come down to it, most Americans are making a decent living and not working in a Nepalese sweatshop. They do not urgently need a better standard of living but a better standard of life. Exploiting the [ Read More ]...
- 6/12/2012
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival
Directed/Written by: Vikram Gandhi
Starring: Vikram Gandhi, Purva Bedi and Kristen Calgaro
Anglican priest and Cambridge professor of divinity William Ralph Inge said, “Faith begins as an experiment …”
And so does Vikram Gandhi’s documentary, born from the mind of a first-generation American raised in New Jersey with Hindu heroes.
Gandhi is a student of religion, a smoker and an observer of a $5 billion yoga and spirituality industry who travels to India to assess whether he could find a guru he could consider to be authentic or whether the whole movement is a financially exploitative, sometimes sexually exploitative affair. Then he sets out to prove or disprove his own point by recreating himself as a guru with made-up chants and nonsense rituals, channeling the accent of his grandmother.
That Gandhi is taking advantage of people in an...
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival
Directed/Written by: Vikram Gandhi
Starring: Vikram Gandhi, Purva Bedi and Kristen Calgaro
Anglican priest and Cambridge professor of divinity William Ralph Inge said, “Faith begins as an experiment …”
And so does Vikram Gandhi’s documentary, born from the mind of a first-generation American raised in New Jersey with Hindu heroes.
Gandhi is a student of religion, a smoker and an observer of a $5 billion yoga and spirituality industry who travels to India to assess whether he could find a guru he could consider to be authentic or whether the whole movement is a financially exploitative, sometimes sexually exploitative affair. Then he sets out to prove or disprove his own point by recreating himself as a guru with made-up chants and nonsense rituals, channeling the accent of his grandmother.
That Gandhi is taking advantage of people in an...
- 3/15/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival
Directed/Written by: Vikram Gandhi
Starring: Vikram Gandhi, Purva Bedi and Kristen Calgaro
Anglican priest and Cambridge professor of divinity William Ralph Inge said, “Faith begins as an experiment …”
And so does Vikram Gandhi’s documentary, born from the mind of a first-generation American raised in New Jersey with Hindu heroes.
Gandhi is a student of religion, a smoker and an observer of a $5 billion yoga and spirituality industry who travels to India to assess whether he could find a guru he could consider to be authentic or whether the whole movement is a financially exploitative, sometimes sexually exploitative affair. Then he sets out to prove or disprove his own point by recreating himself as a guru with made-up chants and nonsense rituals, channeling the accent of his grandmother.
That Gandhi is taking advantage of people in an...
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival
Directed/Written by: Vikram Gandhi
Starring: Vikram Gandhi, Purva Bedi and Kristen Calgaro
Anglican priest and Cambridge professor of divinity William Ralph Inge said, “Faith begins as an experiment …”
And so does Vikram Gandhi’s documentary, born from the mind of a first-generation American raised in New Jersey with Hindu heroes.
Gandhi is a student of religion, a smoker and an observer of a $5 billion yoga and spirituality industry who travels to India to assess whether he could find a guru he could consider to be authentic or whether the whole movement is a financially exploitative, sometimes sexually exploitative affair. Then he sets out to prove or disprove his own point by recreating himself as a guru with made-up chants and nonsense rituals, channeling the accent of his grandmother.
That Gandhi is taking advantage of people in an...
- 3/15/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director; John Del Gaudio, Managing Director), Off-Broadway's extraordinary, Obie Award-winning theater company will present the world premiere of The Really Big Once, a new play, created by the company, that tells the story of two theatrical giants, Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and how they changed American culture. Under the direction of David Herskovits, the five-member cast features Purva Bedi, McKenna Kerrigan, John Kurzynowski, Hubert Point-Du Jour, and Steven Rattazzi.
- 3/17/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
The first English-language effort to be released by Eros Entertainment, the primary U.S. distributor of Indian films, "American Desi" is a heartfelt debut feature by Piyush Dinker Pandya that unfortunately suffers from a lack of sophistication and polish. Possessing all the subtlety of an "Afterschool Special", not to mention any teen comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr., the film is not likely to fully please Indian audiences or cross over to the general public.
The film centers on the personal and romantic difficulties of Krishna Reddy (Deep Katdare), a young Indian who wishes to downplay his roots. Arriving at college for the beginning of his freshman year, Krishna -- or Kris, as he likes to be called -- is dismayed to find that his three roommates are like him. They are "desis" who were born and raised in America (an unlikely situation at a modern college, but never mind). Even worse, the first woman he develops a crush on is the beautiful Nina (Purva Bedi), who is not only Indian but also resolutely proud of her cultural heritage. Competing for her affections with a slimy suitor, Rakesh (Anil Kumar), who is all too eager to accentuate his Indian-ness, Kris must come to terms with his lack of regard for his culture. Not to worry: A happy ending is eventually reached, with Kris winning the girl and sharing a traditional Indian dance.
Although its genuinely relevant issues lift the film a notch above the typical horny-teen comedy, the sophomoric humor, stereotypical characterizations and lack of technical polish undercut its effectiveness.
AMERICAN DESI
Eros Entertainment
Director-screenwriter: Piyush Dinker Pandya
Producer: Gitesh Pandya
Director of photography: Renato Falcao
Editor: Rob Tate
Music: Wig
Color/stereo
Cast:
Krishna Reddy: Deep Katdare
Nina Shah: Purva Bedi
Jagjit Singh: Ronobir Lahiri
Salim Ali Khan : Rizwan Manji
Ajay Pandya: Kal Penn
Rakesh Patel: Anil Kumar
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The film centers on the personal and romantic difficulties of Krishna Reddy (Deep Katdare), a young Indian who wishes to downplay his roots. Arriving at college for the beginning of his freshman year, Krishna -- or Kris, as he likes to be called -- is dismayed to find that his three roommates are like him. They are "desis" who were born and raised in America (an unlikely situation at a modern college, but never mind). Even worse, the first woman he develops a crush on is the beautiful Nina (Purva Bedi), who is not only Indian but also resolutely proud of her cultural heritage. Competing for her affections with a slimy suitor, Rakesh (Anil Kumar), who is all too eager to accentuate his Indian-ness, Kris must come to terms with his lack of regard for his culture. Not to worry: A happy ending is eventually reached, with Kris winning the girl and sharing a traditional Indian dance.
Although its genuinely relevant issues lift the film a notch above the typical horny-teen comedy, the sophomoric humor, stereotypical characterizations and lack of technical polish undercut its effectiveness.
AMERICAN DESI
Eros Entertainment
Director-screenwriter: Piyush Dinker Pandya
Producer: Gitesh Pandya
Director of photography: Renato Falcao
Editor: Rob Tate
Music: Wig
Color/stereo
Cast:
Krishna Reddy: Deep Katdare
Nina Shah: Purva Bedi
Jagjit Singh: Ronobir Lahiri
Salim Ali Khan : Rizwan Manji
Ajay Pandya: Kal Penn
Rakesh Patel: Anil Kumar
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The first English-language effort to be released by Eros Entertainment, the primary U.S. distributor of Indian films, "American Desi" is a heartfelt debut feature by Piyush Dinker Pandya that unfortunately suffers from a lack of sophistication and polish. Possessing all the subtlety of an "Afterschool Special", not to mention any teen comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr., the film is not likely to fully please Indian audiences or cross over to the general public.
The film centers on the personal and romantic difficulties of Krishna Reddy (Deep Katdare), a young Indian who wishes to downplay his roots. Arriving at college for the beginning of his freshman year, Krishna -- or Kris, as he likes to be called -- is dismayed to find that his three roommates are like him. They are "desis" who were born and raised in America (an unlikely situation at a modern college, but never mind). Even worse, the first woman he develops a crush on is the beautiful Nina (Purva Bedi), who is not only Indian but also resolutely proud of her cultural heritage. Competing for her affections with a slimy suitor, Rakesh (Anil Kumar), who is all too eager to accentuate his Indian-ness, Kris must come to terms with his lack of regard for his culture. Not to worry: A happy ending is eventually reached, with Kris winning the girl and sharing a traditional Indian dance.
Although its genuinely relevant issues lift the film a notch above the typical horny-teen comedy, the sophomoric humor, stereotypical characterizations and lack of technical polish undercut its effectiveness.
AMERICAN DESI
Eros Entertainment
Director-screenwriter: Piyush Dinker Pandya
Producer: Gitesh Pandya
Director of photography: Renato Falcao
Editor: Rob Tate
Music: Wig
Color/stereo
Cast:
Krishna Reddy: Deep Katdare
Nina Shah: Purva Bedi
Jagjit Singh: Ronobir Lahiri
Salim Ali Khan : Rizwan Manji
Ajay Pandya: Kal Penn
Rakesh Patel: Anil Kumar
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The film centers on the personal and romantic difficulties of Krishna Reddy (Deep Katdare), a young Indian who wishes to downplay his roots. Arriving at college for the beginning of his freshman year, Krishna -- or Kris, as he likes to be called -- is dismayed to find that his three roommates are like him. They are "desis" who were born and raised in America (an unlikely situation at a modern college, but never mind). Even worse, the first woman he develops a crush on is the beautiful Nina (Purva Bedi), who is not only Indian but also resolutely proud of her cultural heritage. Competing for her affections with a slimy suitor, Rakesh (Anil Kumar), who is all too eager to accentuate his Indian-ness, Kris must come to terms with his lack of regard for his culture. Not to worry: A happy ending is eventually reached, with Kris winning the girl and sharing a traditional Indian dance.
Although its genuinely relevant issues lift the film a notch above the typical horny-teen comedy, the sophomoric humor, stereotypical characterizations and lack of technical polish undercut its effectiveness.
AMERICAN DESI
Eros Entertainment
Director-screenwriter: Piyush Dinker Pandya
Producer: Gitesh Pandya
Director of photography: Renato Falcao
Editor: Rob Tate
Music: Wig
Color/stereo
Cast:
Krishna Reddy: Deep Katdare
Nina Shah: Purva Bedi
Jagjit Singh: Ronobir Lahiri
Salim Ali Khan : Rizwan Manji
Ajay Pandya: Kal Penn
Rakesh Patel: Anil Kumar
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/26/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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