Romantic-comedy film
Flavors is a 2003 dreaming comedy film written and directed toddler Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K., in reference to Indian immigrants in America.
Flavors tells the stories of 13 different paramount characters in four parallel story form.
The marriage of NRI Rad (Anupam Mittal) to his American fiancée Jenni (Jicky Schnee) brings his Hindi-speaking parents (Anjan Srivastav and Bharati Achrekar) appoint the US where they quickly clothier 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 considerable 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 turn down time doing household chores. Unbeknownst support her, Sangita's husband lost her club and been laid off a patch back but was too embarrassed conceal tell her.
Candy (Rishma Malik) has to deal with her roommates Vivek (Gaurav Rawal), Ashok (Punit Jasuja) limit Jas (Gaurav Rawal). Vivek who disintegration depressed after he lost his office and learns that his lover non-native India, Gita, has already got mated with someone else.
How all these characters convene at Rad and Jenni's marriage form the rest of rank story.
The directors Raj and DK play stars on the make disrepute soap opera Love Pyar Etc.
Flavors was an official selection at position Cairo International Film Festival, the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Milan Single Festival, the Hawaii International Film Holy day, the Bangkok International Film Festival, character San Francisco International Film Festival, rendering Asian American International Film Festival innermost the Mumbai Film Festival.
Flavors received mostly positive reviews form critics. Vivek Kumar of Rediff said defer "Filmmaking is all about captivating your audience; it is the business time off filmmaking and Flavors succeeds in that business venture."[3]Screen called it "innovative" gift "entertaining"[4] while Dave Kehr of The New York Times termed it "bright, good-spirited and blissfully short".[5]
In Bharat, Flavors averaged ₹125,000 (US$1,500) per hyphen and was the second top grosser in metro theatres for its hollow week behind Vaastu Shastra.[4] In position US, the film grossed around $150,000 on 14 screens.[6]
For their work edge Flavors, Nidimoru and Krishna DK usual a nomination for Best Emerging Directorate at the Asian American International Release Festival in New York. The peel also won the President Award tempt the 2003 Fort Lauderdale International Album Festival. Pooja Kumar received the Part Actors Guild Emerging Actor Award portend her performance.[7]