Calorie

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 47m

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IMDb

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How it feels

Two sisters visit relatives in India and learn a hidden truth about their family's past involving the Air India bombing. Their mother had kept this secret to protect them.

emotionalpoignantfamily-centeredrevelatoryquietly intensemelancholicrestrainedintrospective

What happens

Calorie is a Canadian drama film, directed by Eisha Marjara and released in 2025. The film stars Ellora Patnaik as Monika, the single mother of a Sikh Canadian family who sends her two daughters Alia (Shanaya Dhillon-Birmhan) and Simi (Ashley Ganger) on a trip to India to visit family and reconnect with their Punjabi heritage, only for the girls to learn the secret their mother had always shielded them from, that their grandmother had been killed in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. The cast also includes Anupam Kher and Dolly Ahluwalia as Mohan and Gurdeep, the great-uncle and great-aunt who host the girls on the trip, as well as Sana Syed, Puja Uppal, Usha Uppal and Peter Miller in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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