Hope and a Little Sugar
Directed byTanuja Chandra
Written byTanuja Chandra and Glenn Russow
Produced byScott Pardo and Glenn Russow
StarringAnupam Kher
Vikram Chatwal
Amit Sial
Mahima Chaudhry
Suhasini Mulay
CinematographyNirmal Jani
Edited byHilary Peabody
Music byWayne Sharpe (score) and Jasbir Jassi (lyrics)
Release date
  • October 2006 (2006-10)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesIndia
United States
LanguageEnglish

Hope and a Little Sugar is a 2006 Indian English-language film shot in New York City and directed by Tanuja Chandra. It premiered and won an award on 6 October 2006 at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York.[1] In addition, it was the opening film in 2008 for the Opening Night Gala at BAFTA, sponsored by the London Asian Film Festival by Tongues on Fire.[2]

Plot

Ali (Amit Sial) is a photographer and bike messenger who lives in New York. He develops a friendship and falls in love with a married woman, Saloni Oberoi (Mahima Chaudhry). When her husband, Harry Oberoi (Vikram Chatwal), is killed during the September 11 attacks, Harry's father, a retired Colonel (Anupam Kher), begins to take his aggressions out on Ali for being a Muslim. Although Mrs. Oberoi (Suhasini Mulay) tries to stop the Colonel's behavior, the situation escalates as the Colonel, himself, becomes the target of social post-9/11 aggression directed towards him because he is a Sikh.[3][4][5]

Cast

Production

The film was shot in 2004 but was delayed due to "an exhaustive post-production exchange" between director Chandra and independent American producers—Scott Pardo and Glenn Russow.[3] This included pre and post-production that was entirely done via the internet. Pre-production took over two months where Chandra "finalised the cast, locations and even set design sitting in Mumbai." The entire cast and crew consisted of 25 people, and the film was shot entirely in New York over a period of 25 days.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Sugar and all things nice
  2. ↑ "London Asian Film Festival: History". Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  3. 1 2 Hope and a Little Sugar: Rediff
  4. ↑ Hope and Little Sugar review
  5. ↑ Hope and a Little Sugar: NYT
  6. ↑ Rocking on
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