India Sweets and Spices

India Sweets and Spices (2021)

Let the aunties talk.

A college freshman confronts her parents’ values in order to understand her own evolving identity.

Date of release
2021-11-19
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Geeta Malik

Casting

Interesting facts

India Sweets and Spices is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Geeta Malik. The film had a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 19, 2021. The film stars Sophia Ali, Manisha Koirala, Rish Shah, and Adil Hussain. The film is based on Geeta Malik's own script “Dinner With Friends” that won the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in screen-writing.

Production

Malik drew upon her childhood experiences in Aurora, Colorado for the film. Her parents would take part in what Malik's mother described as 'Desi therapy' with others in their Indian community, where they would "eat their own food and have our own clothes on". Malik initially saw these parties as comforting but that "as I got older, I realized there was also a lot of backbiting and gossiping; there was a lot of drama behind the scenes."

India Sweets and Spices was filmed in Metro Atlanta.

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