Chutney Popcorn

The push and pull of familial bonds and clashing cultures sets the stage for the comic drama Chutney Popcorn. Renna is a young woman of Indian descent living in New York, where she works as both a photographer and a body artist who creates henna tattoos. Renna is also a lesbian, which does not please her mother, Meenu, who prefers to dote on her more traditionally minded (and happily married) daughter Sarita. One day, Renna gets some bad news from Sarita: While she and her husband have been trying to have a baby, her doctor has informed her that she is infertile and will never bear a child of her own. Renna volunteers to serve as surrogate mother for Sarita; she wants to help her sister and hopes this will smooth some of the rough spots in her relationship with her mother. But Renna starts to have second thoughts, as her lover Lisa feels left out of the loop, and Meenu thinks both Renna and Sarita are making a mistake.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

6:30pm

allgo [701 Tillery - Austin, TX 78702]

FMI: lorenzo herrera y lozano

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