Umrika (2015)
- Directed by
- Prashant Nair
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film
- Country
- India
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- 6
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 38 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In a small Indian village, a young man grows up hearing stories about his older brother who has supposedly gone to America. When he begins to suspect the truth behind the letters from abroad, he sets out on a journey of his own.
bittersweetgentlequietly humorousnostalgiccontemplativepoignantunderstated
What happens
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. Umrika premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award. Director Nair said that the film is "about the mythology of America, and more generally, how cultures perceive each other". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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