Umrika

A small village in India is invigorated when one of their own travels to America (aka, UMRIKA) and details his adventures through letters home, sparking community debate and inspiring hope. But when the letters mysteriously stop coming, his younger brother Rama (Suraj Sharma) sets out on a journey to find him. With the help of his best friend Lalu (Tony Revolori), Rama retraces his brother’s path to find himself charting one of his own. Set in the mid 1980s, UMRIKA is a funny and meaningful story of the lengths taken to realize one’s dreams.

Critic Reviews:

• " The greater themes resonate because Nair has managed to incorporate several big and abstract topics into a story in which they become highly personal for the characters. " – Boyd van Hoeij

• " Umrika achieves remarkable power as a story by concentrating its view of America through the eyes of people who have never been there. " – Paul Byrnes

• " ‘Life of Pi's’ Suraj Sharma makes his Bollywood debut in this ingratiating drama set in the '70s and '80s. " – Dennis Harvey