This zany take on the American Dream follows the Raj clan, who are just like any other family in Hoboken, N.J.: drowning in debt, driving one another crazy and ... mixed up with the mob by way of a call center in India.
Acting
Samrat Chakrabarti's perfectly frazzled everyman energy
Writing
Call center script jokes that hit uncomfortably close
Costume
Hoboken meets Mumbai aesthetic whiplash
Director
Sarba Das
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sarba Das made this while working her day job in advertising, shooting weekends over two years.
This was among the first wave of early 2000s indie films exploring South Asian-American identity through comedy rather than trauma.