Flavors (film)

Flavors tells the stories of 13 different main characters in four parallel story lines.

The marriage of NRI Rad (Anupam Mittal) to his American fiancée Jenni (Jicky Schnee) brings his Hindi-speaking parents (Anjan Srivastav and Bharati Achrekar) to the US where they quickly adapt to American ways.

Meanwhile, Kartik (Reef Karim), tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with his friend Rachna (Pooja Kumar) while her aunt (Sangeet Sharma) tries to set her up with a well educated man Ramana (Manan Katohara).

A bored housewife Sangita (Sireesha Katragadda) is neglected by her workaholic husband Nikhil (Gaurang Vyas). She calls her Telugu-speaking mother and spends her time doing household chores. Unbeknownst to her, Sangita's husband lost her job and been laid off a while back but was too embarrassed to tell her.

Candy (Rishma Malik) has to deal with her roommates Vivek (Gaurav Rawal), Ashok (Punit Jasuja) and Jas (Gaurav Rawal). Vivek who is depressed after he lost his job and learns that his lover from India, Gita, has already got married with someone else.

How all these characters convene at Rad and Jenni's marriage form the rest of the story.

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• Anupam Mittal as Rad
• Jicky Schnee as Jenni
• Reef Karim as Kartik
• Pooja Kumar as Rachana
• Sireesha Katragadda as Sangita
• Gaurang Vyas as Nikhil
• Anjan Srivastav as Mr. Gopalakrishna
• Bharati Achrekar as Mrs. Gopalakrishna
• Rishma Malik as Candy
• Mohit Shah as Vivek
• Punit Jasuja as Ashok
• Gaurav Rawal as Jas
• Manan Katohara as Ramana Dasarakothapalli
• Tushar Unadkat as Randy Sandy
• Gayatri Khanna as Smita
• Sangeet Sharma as Rachana's aunt

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The directors Raj and DK play stars on the make believe soap opera Love Pyar Etc.

Flavors was an official selection at the Cairo International Film Festival, the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Milan Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, the Bangkok International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival and the Mumbai Film Festival.

Flavors received mostly positive reviews form critics. Vivek Kumar of Rediff said that "Filmmaking is all about captivating your audience; it is the business of filmmaking and Flavors succeeds in this business venture."{{cite web |url= http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/jul/22reader.htm |title = Flavours of a second coming |author= Vivek Kumar |date= 22 July 2004 |work= Rediff |accessdate=6 January 2010}} Screen called it "innovative" and "entertaining"{{cite web |url= http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=9409|title= Controversial Dutch filmmaker |date= 12 February 2004 |work= Screen |accessdate=6 January 2010}}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} while Dave Kehr of The New York Times termed it "bright, good-spirited and blissfully short".{{cite web |url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A02E6DE143AF935A25754C0A9629C8B63 |title= Bollywood Discovers New Jersey's Subplots |author= Dave Kehr |date= 16 July 2004 |work=The New York Times |accessdate=6 January 2010}}

In India, Flavors averaged {{INRConvert|125000}} per print and was the second top grosser in metro theatres for its opening week behind Vaastu Shastra. In the US, the film grossed around $150,000 on 14 screens.{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361625/business |title = Flavors |publisher= Box Office Mojo |accessdate=6 January 2010}}

For their work on Flavors, Nidimoru and Krishna DK received a nomination for Best Emerging Directors at the Asian American International Film Festival in New York. The film also won the President Award at the 2003 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Pooja Kumar received the Screen Actors Guild Emerging Actor Award for her performance.{{cite web |url= http://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/interview-rajkrishna.html |title= Interview with Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK |author= Bala Subramanyam |publisher=Idle Brain.com |accessdate=6 January 2010}}

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• {{IMDb title|0361625|Flavors}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20050305060510/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2004/10/29/stories/2004102903230302.htm Review] by Chitra Mahesh of the Hindu

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