Caught Between Colors

Munjal Yagnik

United States

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Amidst the religious tensions of contemporary India, a Muslim girl and a Hindu boy struggle with the temptation to act on their own growing romantic feelings for each other.

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Like Belfast, Jerusalem, and Shakespeare's Verona, 21st-century Mumbai is an apt setting for a tale of innocent love doomed by a society structured on the politics of intolerance.  The moon-June-spoon  lovers in this case are Raj (Shivam Sood), a Hindu, and Zoya (Shilpi Arora), a Muslim. The story opens with a familiar contemporary problem: Raj receives a letter of acceptance from Syracuse University. Should he go to America without Zoya? But solving their age-of-globalization dilemma is precluded by ancient enmities. Each goes home to a family whose intractable prejudices are expressed with such brutal nonchalance that love becomes a moot point. Yagnik, who hales from Bhopal, India, wrote, directed, and produced the film as a Syracuse senior

-David Marc