What happens when a bunch of hapless Hindus from Hoboken get mixed up with an underworld don with connections to an Indian call center? And what happens when a good Jersey girl falls for a smooth operator thousands of miles away? For one thing, the phone keeps ringing.
Meet the Raj family: deep in denial about its creeping credit card debt, dodging collection notices and phone calls. When eldest daughter Sonal finally picks up the phone, she meets a call center operator like no other: Rob Roy an Indian man trying to pass as a “blue-blooded” American. Little does she know that he’s oceans away in Mumbai.
Her brother Shyam, a college dropout, is too busy dreaming of becoming the next Dr. Dre (peddling his hip-hop album Hapa Means Weed in Japanese) to notice the bills piling up. But romance is in the air for him too, in the form of Radha, a village girl from India, arriving in America to marry a Dollar Store mogul.
Then there is Mausi, a chai-fueled Mary Poppins fresh from India, hell bent on getting this meat-eating, energy-wasting, spendthrift family in line. The Gods, however, have it all figured out for her.
Narrated by award-winning actor Tony Sirico (aka “Paulie Walnuts” of The Sopranos), this quintessentially American tale about unlikely alliances, outsourcing, and outwitting is, at its heart, the story of a family learning to live together.
When karma calls, you can’t hang up.
Co-presented by:
UCSD South Asian American Awareness Week
people who liked this also liked
people who added this also added
Like it? Share it with friends
