Cast: Irrfan Khan, Jagannath Guha, Kal Penn, Rani Mukherjee, Tabu, Zuleikha Robinson
Features: Anamorphic Wide Screen, English subtitles, Spanish subtitles and French Subtitles
Banner: UTV
Music: Nitin Sawhney
Screenplay - direction: Mira Nair
Producer: Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ms. Nair



The film has a crackling star performance by Kal Penn (from the clever trash comedy “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle”), who brings an offhanded charisma to the role of Gogol, the first-born child of Ashima (Tabu), a classically trained singer, and Ashoke Ganguli (Irrfan Khan), an aspiring engineer, who move to America in 1977 after their arranged marriage in Calcutta.

Alone together in a foreign land in the middle of winter, the shy, polite newlyweds are virtual strangers, and the movie captures their delicate process of mutual accommodation. Ashima’s initiation into American culture has gentle, humorous moments. She is astonished to discover gas stoves that work 24 hours a day and learns the hard way that wool sweaters should not be dumped into a washing machine.