Doubles

Doubles (2023)

In small-town Trinidad, Dhani is a dissatisfied man in his early 20s. He hangs out at bars with his high rolling friends, but he doesn’t belong. Dhani always leaves the party early so that he can work the nightshift with his feisty mother, Sumintra selling “Doubles” (the famous Trinidadian street-food). The two share the same dream of opening their very own brick-and- mortar restaurant. After getting humiliated by a girl and Sumintra getting robbed at knife point, Dhani has lost his patience. His land-developing friend, Philip, offers hundreds of thousands of dollars for their land. But, it’s Ragbir, Dhani's estranged father, a successful chef in Toronto, who owns the property. Against Sumintra’s wishes, Dhani decides to go to Toronto to confront Ragbir and get the land signed over to them.

Date of release
2023-09-16
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ian Harnarine

Casting

Interesting facts

Doubles is a Canadian drama film, directed by Ian Harnarine and released in 2023. An expansion of his Genie Award-winning 2011 short film Doubles with Slight Pepper, the film stars Sanjiv Boodhu as Dhani, a young doubles vendor in Trinidad who travels to Toronto to visit his estranged father Ragbir, only to learn that his father is dying.

Production and distribution

The film was announced as receiving funding from Telefilm Canada's Talent to Watch program in 2019. Production was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

It premiered on September 17, 2023, at the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival, and was screened the following week as the opening film of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival.

It was subsequently screened as the opening film of the 2024 Canadian Film Festival, before going into commercial release in July 2024.

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