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Screen/Society--Love=Love series--" Nina's Heavenly Delights "
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| Date: | 03/28/2008
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| Time: | 7:30pm
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| Location: | Love Auditorium (LSRC B101), West Campus
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| Contact: | hokazak@duke.edu
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| Event URL: | http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php#Feb27
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| Summary: | (Pratibha Parmar, 2006, 94 min, UK, in English, Color, DVD)
Nina's Heavenly Delights is a surprising love story where Scottish humor meets Bollywood spectacle! It follows the mixed fortunes of a Glaswegian family, the Shah's and their award winning Indian restaurant, The New Taj. The story is told through the eyes of Nina Shah, a young Scottish Asian woman. Nina had left home under a cloud after an argument with her father but when he dies suddenly, Nina is forced to return. Her return reunites her with her childhood friend Bobbi, a wannabe Bollywood drag queen, and brings her face to face with Lisa, a charismatic young woman who now owns half the restaurant. Then Nina discovers her father's secret - The New Taj has been selected for The Best of the West Curry Competition. In the turbulent, but exhilarating days that follow, Nina, with Lisa's help, embarks on a personal mission to win the trophy for the third time. But Nina's feelings are thrown into turmoil when she realizes that she is falling in love with Lisa. Can her feelings ever be reciprocated? And, if they are, what will this mean for Nina and her family?
Screening location: French Family Science Center, room 2231.
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| Details: | (Pratibha Parmar, 2006, 94 min, UK, in English, Color, DVD)
Nina's Heavenly Delights is a surprising love story where Scottish humor meets Bollywood spectacle! It follows the mixed fortunes of a Glaswegian family, the Shah's and their award winning Indian restaurant, The New Taj. The story is told through the eyes of Nina Shah, a young Scottish Asian woman. Nina had left home under a cloud after an argument with her father but when he dies suddenly, Nina is forced to return. Her return reunites her with her childhood friend Bobbi, a wannabe Bollywood drag queen, and brings her face to face with Lisa, a charismatic young woman who now owns half the restaurant. Then Nina discovers her father's secret - The New Taj has been selected for The Best of the West Curry Competition. In the turbulent, but exhilarating days that follow, Nina, with Lisa's help, embarks on a personal mission to win the trophy for the third time. But Nina's feelings are thrown into turmoil when she realizes that she is falling in love with Lisa. Can her feelings ever be reciprocated? And, if they are, what will this mean for Nina and her family?
Screening location: French Family Science Center, room 2231.
Sponsored by DukeOUT, the Duke University Union, the Graduate & Professional Student Council, FuquaPride, Duke Allies, the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, the Office of Institutional Equity, Nosh Eclectic Foodstuffs, the Human Rights Campaign, Club Steel Blue, the Division of Student Affairs, and the Film/Video/Digital Program.
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