Green Card Fever

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It’s from the same folks who made “American Desi”. It’s about an Indian immigrant who has overstayed his visa in USA.

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Green Card Fever

Cast: Purva Bedi, Deep Katdare, Vikram Dasu, Robert Lin, Subash
Producer: Vijay Vaidyanathan
Director: Bala Rajasekharuni
Banner: Net Effect Media
Music: Pete Sears

The lead cast of American Desi returns with yet another crossover flick written and directed by debutante director Bala Rajakharuni. The writer-director earned his Master’s degree in Direction from the reputed University from Wisconsin-Madison not only this he has worked a great deal in television, films and theatre. Green card fever is his first endeavor in film writing and direction. Music is by Pete Sears the one who was associated with bands like ‘Jefferson Starship’ and ‘hot Tuna’. Along with the American desi lead Deep Katdare and Purva Bedi the film introduces Vikram Dasu. The film is an account of an immigrant Indian moving heaven and hell to get the green card.

With dreams in eyes and some money in his pocket Murali Ravillapind (Vikram Dasu) packs his luggage and arrives in America. Once there he tries to realize his dreams. Days pass into months and his visa expires and comes the time to go back empty handed or to stay behind as an ‘illegal immigrant’. He learns the tact of getting Green card is by suing his lawyer Omjeet (Deep Katdare). Meanwhile he also falls in love with a beautiful Indian girl Bharati (Purva Bedi). He also keeps up the good act with his family in India by convincing his parents that he is living a fun-filled life in the States.Very soon he finds himself surrounded by strange people who try to exploit him. Muralli’s dreams of legalizing his stay in America seem like a distant dream now. Caught between the woman he loves and people with ulterior self-motives Murali learns about his own principals and beliefs.

Green card fever gives a complete new insight to the plight of legal and illegal immigrants in America. The movie has all romance, comedy and drama. And if the raving reviews in Hollywood are anything to go by this one is absolutely a Bollywood fare.

Catch the fever as the movie releases today

Preview by Sanjay Shah

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it's gonna suck

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Trying to Escape a Life of Disaster
By ANITA GATES

You know what’s really cool?" one sandy-haired young man says. “They ride elephants in India.” Another all-American boy tells Bharathi (Purva Bedi) that he has heard that people in her country eat with their fingers. Bharathi, a thoroughly Americanized young woman who says all she remembers about India is a scarcity of toilet paper, thought she was going to have fun at her boyfriend’s birthday party. But she soon realizes that to his friends she’s a curiosity, and to him she’s a cultural-awareness project.

That dialogue gives you some idea of the oversimplification rampant in “Green Card Fever,” an amiable but highly didactic romantic drama filmed in the United States (Columbus, Ohio) in English. But it is a Hindi film in spirit.

Bharathi is not the film’s central character. What’s important are her changing feelings about Murali (Vikram Dasu), a recent Indian immigrant whose visa has expired and who is struggling to get his green card so he can stay in the United States. Before the birthday party incident, Bharathi looked down on him; afterward she feels a cultural bond that evolves into romance. The two meet at a dot-com matchmaking event that her traditional parents have dragged her to and where he is looking for work.

Thank goodness for Bharathi, because everything else in Murali’s life is a disaster. He lives in a horrific apartment with three other men. His smooth, good-looking Indian-American lawyer (Deep Katdare) is condescending and overpriced and feels a certain superiority because he is involved with a redhead. The lawyer’s grandfather (Subash Kundanmal), however, points out that the relationship doesn’t change anything about him. “So what if you have a white girlfriend?” he says. “Her race is not sexually transmitted to you.”

The expert (Kaizaad Kotwal) who promises to help Murali through the green card application process is a thief and a liar who keeps telling his clients, “Learn to be patient and trust me.” The man finds Murali what seems to be a day care baby-sitting job, but when Murali opens his pay envelope, the only thing inside is a MetroCard.

Ultimately there’s an arrest, and the film, which opens today in the New York region, turns into a courtroom drama. This gives Murali the opportunity to make a witness-stand speech about an immigration system that is corrupt on both sides of the world.

Directed by Bala Rajashekaruni
Not rated, 100 minutes

New York Times Review

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Monsoon Wedding, Bend it like Beckham have been awesome! I hope this movie falls in the same league!!