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  1. Sep 23, 2016 · The real destination of an under-educated Indian immigrant might have been the Arab countries, but then “Dubai” cannot be mangled like “Umrika”.

  2. Aug 24, 2015 · REVIEW: INDIAN FILM 'UMRIKA' LOOKS BEHIND MIGRATION. By Dimitri Keramitas. Prashant Nair’s Umrika comes at a critical moment of migration crisis in Europe, where thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa face overwhelmed services in Italy and Greece, where expanding refugee camps are putting pressure on the governments of France ...

  3. Feb 2, 2015 · At first glance, the story of “Umrika” seems far removed from the world most of us inhabit—set in the 1980s, in the distant Indian village of Jitvapur, whose inhabitants communicate in an unfamiliar Hindi dialect.

  4. Sep 8, 2015 · Nair, son of an Indian diplomat, has spent most of his life outside India – moving to new postings every few years as a child, then college in the US, and more recently, a nomad working in social media in New York, Prague and Berlin.

  5. Sep 9, 2015 · Writer/director Prashant Nair dramatises the myth of America for millions of poor Indians in Umrika, by reversing the colonial process. Umrika is Hindi for America.

  6. Sep 22, 2016 · In contrast to Slumdog Millionaire, which was a fairy tale that transcended its gritty Indian slum setting with a satisfying but unrealistic happy ending, Umrika is a far sadder story.

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    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.

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