Festival of Lights (film)
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Director Shundell Prasad Writer Shundell Prasad Producer Shundell Prasad Country United States | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Shundell Prasad Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 13, 2010 (2010-11-13) (Saint Louis Film Festival) Cast Melinda Shankar (Reshma), Jimi Mistry (Vishnu), Aidan Quinn (Adem), Ritu Singh Pande (Meena), Stephen Hadeed Jr. (Ravin), Nandanie Dudhnath (Asha)Similar movies Mustard Bath, Summer Solstice (2003), The War at Home (1979), The Giver (2014), The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Festival of Lights is a 2010 film directed and written by Shundell Prasad. It stars Melinda Shankar as the rebellious and mouthy Reshma, Jimi Mistry as Reshma's birth father, and Aidan Quinn as Reshma's stepfather. The film deals with Reshma's struggles to find her father whom she was separated from when she and her mother, played by Ritu Singh Pande, migrate from Guyana to New York City.
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Plot
Separated from her father when their family immigrates from Guyana, a young girl comes of age in New York City. Battling through a troubled youth and a broken relationship with her mother, she struggles to find peace and discover the secret of what happened to her father.
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Production
The film was directed, written and co-produced by Shundell Prasad. It was filmed in Georgetown, Guyana and Queens, New York.
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