Filmmaker shetanifilms talks about her latest film 'India Sweets and Spices,' and opens up about what inspires her to continue making movies, even when the external challenges of Hollywood put pressure on indie films.
is a coming-of-age story that follows Alia , a rising UCLA sophomore home for the summer who discovers, in between attending increasingly lavish parties thrown by the aunties in her suburban upper-middle-class New Jersey neighborhood, her mother’s political past. It is a charming exploration of mother-daughter relationships, a young person’s burgeoning sense of class consciousness, and the malaise felt when returning home after a year away.
Do you think the younger you are when you see something, the more pure your relationship is to it? Or are you just more open to things at that age? I was probably a little too young when I first saw it, maybe a pre-teen. I just remember being so entranced by it. What really drew me to it and what I see going forward in the DNA of my own films is that Miloš Forman takes this rebel character from the play—and Amadeus could have been a really stuffy period piece, could have been very pompous—to the screen. And he’s crazy and bawdy; it’s a very lively film. I felt very taken by this world and felt, These are rules we can break.
I think the common thread is that I use humor to discuss something I am in turmoil about. The features I’m writing now and the stories I want to tell—I have a whole folder—it’s hard for me to do just pure comedy or pure drama. I have to have some sort of take on what I’m discussing. In my first short film,, the aunties have a moment of freedom before coming home and serving dinner, and it was done in a very over-the-top, satirical way.
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