Saturday, October 27

‘Knocked Up’ in Madrid

El Próximo Oriente: Una Historia de Amor al Curry (The Near East: A Story From Love to Curry) is a Spanish rom-com about a guy who gets his Muslim girlfriend pregnant and grapples with the consequences. Have I mentioned that Spaniards love Bollywood?

¿Hasta dónde serías capaz de llegar por una mujer? Caín (Javier Cifrián), demasiado lejos. Todo comienza en el madrileño barrio de Lavapiés, donde el solitario Caín –gordo, tímido y acomplejado– trabaja como carnicero. Su única familia es su hermano Abel (Asier Etxeandia), que tiene todo lo que él desea (es guapo, está casado y tiene dos hermosas gemelas). La trama comienza cuando Abel deja embarazada a Aisha (Nur Al Levi), un guapa vecina musulmana y Caín decide hacerse cargo del pequeño y de todos los problemas que esta situación acarrea. [Link]

How far would you go for a woman? Caín (Javier Cifrián) would go too far. Everything starts in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés, where the bachelor Caín — fat, timid and with an inferiority complex — works as a butcher. His only family is his brother Abel (Asier Etxeandia), who has everything he wants (he’s handsome, married and has two beautiful twin daughters). The plot begins when Abel knocks up Aisha (Nur Al Levi), a beautiful Muslim neighbor, Caín decides to take care of the little one, and from all the problems this situation carries.

Here’s the trailer (in Spanish):

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4 comments

  1. 1Bobby

    Any film or book with desis and diaspora with references to curry in their title are still born to begin with. Looks absolutely cringeworthy. The ethnicity of the characters looks very clueless and crude too.

  2. 2arZan

    Why is the guy groping the girl in the poster………..naughty naughty :)

  3. 3UberMetroMallu

    To whom does the hand that gropeth belong to? I have an eye for detail, no?

  4. 4Ultrafan

    The dude surely loves his…mangoes :).


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