Keeping Up With The Kandasamys (2017)

Original title

Keeping Up with the Kandasamys

Directed by

Jayan Moodley

Genre

comedy film

Country

South Africa

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

14A

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two neighboring Indian families in South Africa try to set up their children with one another. The mothers scheme and compete in friendly ways to make the match happen.

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What happens

Keeping Up with the Kandasamys (or simply Kandasamys) is a 2017 South African comedy film directed by Jayan Moodley, and was the first South African Indian film to be screened widely in theaters. It stars Jailoshini Naidoo, Maeshni Naicker, Madhushan Singh, and Mishqah Parthiephal. The film grossed over R4 million at the box office in its first week and went on to gross over R16 million (US$1 million), becoming the highest-grossing film in South Africa for the year, and the highest grossing South African film worldwide in 2017. It also featured in film festivals in North America. The film's name is a reference to the American reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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