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    Hindi. Umrika ( transl. America) is a 2015 Indian Hindi comedy-drama film written and directed by Prashant Nair, and produced by Swati Shetty and Manish Mundra. It features Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Smita Tambe, Rajesh Tailang, Pramod Pathak, Adil Hussain, Amit Sial, Sauraseni Maitra and Prateik Babbar . Umrika premiered at the 2015 Sundance ...

  2. Sep 22, 2016 · The film show the illusion of the American Dream. ... which was a fairy tale that transcended its gritty Indian slum setting with a satisfying but unrealistic happy ending, Umrika is a far sadder ...

  3. Jun 27, 2020 · "Umrika" is a dark commentary on the varied reasons for immigration and its human cost wrapped in a sunny, traditional "coming to America" package. This Sundance Audience award winner is a fascinating film to get around to in post-Trump America, a time when that warm, well-worn "Anything is possible if we can just get to…

  4. Aug 24, 2015 · Umrika, which won the audience award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, is different in focusing on life before migration. The move to Umrika - America - comes only at the end of the film. It portrays that life not only in terms of material deprivation, but complex family relationships and a skewed idealization of the Other Land - the flip ...

  5. Jan 28, 2015 · Sundance Film Review: ‘Umrika’. 'Life of Pi's' Suraj Sharma makes his Bollywood debut in this ingratiating drama set in the '70s and '80s. Taking a more serious and less busily contemporary ...

  6. Jan 29, 2015 · A wide-eyed young man from the Indian countryside ends up in sprawling Mumbai in Umrika, the second feature from Indian-born director Prashant Nair (Delhi in a Day).Closer to Western cinema than ...

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  8. Feb 2, 2015 · Sundance 2015 Interview: Prashant Nair on “Umrika”. Anisha Jhaveri February 02, 2015. Tweet. Editor's note: Anisha Jhaveri is one of four recipients of the Sundance Institute's Roger Ebert Fellowship for Film Criticism for 2014. The scholarship meant she participated in the Indiewire | Sundance Institute Fellowship for Film Criticism, a ...

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