Dollar Dreams

Shekar Kammula’s Debut Film as a director: The film is about youngsters from Hyderabad who are obsessive of immigrating to United States. It revolves around six characters & their choice of making careers and settling down in United States or in homeland (India). the film revolves around six characters faced with the choice of making careers, and homes, for themselves in the States, or staying on in India. Ravi, thus, is US-bound, flying in the face of his parents’ grief at his departure. Balu is determined to follow his footsteps. Phani hesitates on the verge of making the same choice. Srinu, the rebel, is the exception, preferring to study management in India. Sardar dreams of expanding his family business. And Usha, the only girl in the group, is busy with a project that involves interviewing the US-bound. The film starts rather jerkily but, once the characters settle down, it becomes engrossing. The director sets his characters against the backdrop of middle class Hyderabadi society and its magnificent obsession with the US, the H-1 visa and the Green Card. As typified by this couple who are heading off to the States just so their first child can be born there — and thus become, automatically, an American citizen. The conflict in the film is between the dollar dreams and human feelings. What, the film asks — and tries to answer — happens to those who are left behind, to the aged parents deprived of the support they had taken for granted? Ravi’s father, thus …
Video Rating: 4 / 5