"Mixed Up"

"Mixed Up" is my first feature film that I have written and directed myself.

Humbled that my debut feature film as writer/director - "Mixed Up" - has won NINE awards so far (more results awaited).
1. "Best Women's Feature" award at the After Hour Film Festival, USA.
2. "Best Debut Filmmaker " award at the Tagore international film festival, Calcutta;
3. "Best Debut Filmmaker" award at the Indo French international Film Festival in Pondicherry, India;
4. "Best Debut Filmmaker" award at the Druk International Film Festival, Bhutan.
5. "Award Winner" at 7th Art Independent International Film Festival, Trivandrum;
6. "Best Movie of the Film Festival" at Kalakari Film Festival in Madhya Pradesh, India.
7. "Best Debut Filmmaker" award at the Golden Sparrow International Film Festival, Tamil Nadu.
8. "Best Fiction Feature" award from Open Window International Film Challenge
9. Beyond Earth International film festival, Kolkota, India.
It has been accepted at the WRPN Women's International Film Festival, Delaware, USA, where the movie may be premiered in May 2021.
My movie is a little over two hours long, and deals with race relations. Thank you to my team of actors.

I am a playwright and poet and an academician reinventing myself as a filmmaker. My work has always meant for a niche audience. This is also a slow moving independent art film, and not to contemporary taste.

I have always believed in a just and equitable world order. All of my work is about changing the hierarchical nature of the world order. In creating the movie, "Mixed Up," I hope the viewers will reexamine racial and cultural differences.

"Mixed Up" is an intercultural love story. When a white American Professor's daughter's fall in love with a Hindu doctor and a Muslim in the 1970s, the consequences of the daughters' choices and decisions reflect on the complexities of racial prejudice even in the changed landscape of contemporary romantic entanglements.

Synopsis of "Mixed Up:"

While the incidence of interracial dating and exogamous marriages has definitely gone up in the past decade or so, the acceptance of such relationships is still fraught with complexities of social psychology and ingrained racial prejudices.

In a radical departure from my previous writing style, I have tried to create a poetic rendition of intercultural love where I examine causal factors that make up romantic interracial relationships. The story reveals the deep seated hostility of a white American Professor's white wife to their two daughters' boyfriends, one a Hindu Indian medical doctor and the other, a Muslim. The story exposes the consequences of the daughters' choices and decisions and the changed landscape of modern romantic entanglements.

Cast of Characters

Raj: A young Indian male in his 20s or early 30s, later appearing as a middle aged man in his early sixties.

Ali: A young Muslim male in his 20s or early 30s, later appearing as a middle aged man in his early sixties.

Ashley: A good looking white woman in her late 20s, later appearing as a middle aged woman in her early sixties.

Brittany: Ashley’s sister, and also a good looking white woman in her 20s or early 30s, later appearing as a middle aged woman in her early sixties.

Scott: A bespectacled and intellectual seeming white man in his 60s.

Emma: Scott’s white wife and an ageing beauty.

Sheela: Raj’s mom, a widowed Hindu woman in a saree.

Rajiv: Raj’s son - a young Indian male in his late 20s or early 30s (one actor can double up as young Raj and Rajiv).

Nicole: Brittany’s daughter, and also a good looking white woman in her 20s or early 30s.

Sam: Brittany’s elderly looking physician husband, with graying temples.

Farid: Ashley’s son, a handsome young white male in his 20s or early 30s.
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