Chapter 21: Mississippi Masala

You think you know everything about Indian movies as an Indian and then you find out about a movie that has the word 'masala' meaning spices in English and you know nothing about it.

Forget knowing, you don't even remember this movie being discussed anywhere on any platform and this was not even on Netflix or maybe it was on some streaming service hidden in some corner.

That's what Sunny felt when he saw the movie poster and timings of this movie - Mississippi Masala.

The title is funny and over the top and seriously stupid but hell, it's a kind of Indian film. So sunny decided to check information about the movie and then he read a famous name - Mira Nair.

Mira Nair is famous for three things as far as Sunny could remember in his last life, The great movie Namesake, The controversial movie Kama Sutra and the fact that she won India's third highest civilian award - Padma Bhushan by the first female President of India, Pratibha Patil.

Apart from these three, he couldn't remember anything else. He had seen kama sutra in his previous life but only the sex scenes and that too on a porn website. He was never even interested in watching that movie.

But an Indian-born Filmmaker who received one of the highest honours in India is simply unknown to the general audience. This was a paradox he was experiencing for the first time.

She is famous and he knows why but he never cared before.

"Okay, let's watch the movie," Sunny after debating with himself for a long time decided to check out the work just from an audience's point of view.

Almost 50 minutes into the film, Sunny walked out of the theatre with a bored expression.

"Shit... That was 50 minutes of my life that I wasted..," let down by his big expectations, Sunny returned back to his hotel. This movie can never be released in India.

Forget India, it will hardly have any market anywhere.

Male lead - American and Black, Female lead - Indian and Brown, Theme - love between these two people amid the pressure from their separate communities in the backdrop of Uganda's eviction of Indians.

This is like the oldest kind of love story but then the setting the movie with a background of Uganda?

Women, what do you want to show and who do you want to market this movie? Is your target audience from Uganda? or India or America?

If this is for the Indian audience, why not change Uganda to India? If this is for Uganda, why is there no Ugandan actor in lead and if this is for Americans, don't you think a white actor would have been a better choice when you already have a brown actress?

Seriously, this movie has a simple storyline yet is forcibly made complex by putting it into different kinds of settings.

"Rubbish!" This was the only review Sunny could give this to the film. This film will win awards but winning an audience is impossible for this kind of movie.

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Cutting her name from any future contact, Sunny had his dinner and then waited for the executives to come back with some interesting news or possible good findings.

It was only an hour later when the executives started coming back and then, Sunny decided to hold a meeting after the dinner.

"So, guys any news? Anything that caught your eyes today?" Sunny asked as he poured beer for himself.

The company executives saw their young boss was so informal so they let loose and everyone grabbed their own bottles and then started giving a summary of their report.

"Sir, I saw four movies- Delicatessen, Gas Food Lodging, Johnny Suede and Ju Dou. The first one is French and the last one is Chinese. The audience response to the french movie was good and Johnny Suede, the lead actor in this American movie is someone called Brad Pitt. The audience loves his looks and it might have an audience." One executive said.

"Sir, I watched a couple of movies but the only one mentionable is Light Sleeper. Directed by Paul Schrader and the lead actor is Willem Dafoe. Kind of like Taxi Driver and American Gigolo." Another executive said.

"Sir, I checked several movies including this French movie and Gas Food Lodging. There are some really beautiful girls in this movie and I think we can easily market it to the male audience."

"Sir, the debuted film, Poison Ivy is something I think will do good on the video market. It's kind of softporn type thing but Drew Barrymore is there and she has some good shots."

After these others executives repeated the same process including those who spoke about Reservoir Dogs and Mississippi Masala. By the end of the discussion,  Sunny had a clear idea about today's screenings.

"Okay, Nice work everyone. Someone should make a simple report of all of our findings and then rate the movies as per everyone's professional opinion.

We will daily sit after dinner and then check with each other. That's all for today. Good night." Sunny decided to grab some sleep before repeating the process tomorrow again.

Anyway, he never heard about Brad Pitt before he became famous so he decided to check his movie once.

Rest he had no interest.

"It seems, only Quentin is the lucky Gem I found," Sunny whispered to himself before getting into his bed.

Unknown to him, the two strange people with John Turturro were the famous Coen brothers. He simply missed them because he never saw their pictures or saw them and forgot.

He will truly cry for nights in future because of it.

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