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Khoya

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Khoya is a Canadian drama written and directed by Sami Khan. It premiered at last year’s Mumbai Film Festival and has gone on to play Indian Film Festivals in Los Angeles and New York City. The film stars Rupak Ginn, Ravi Khanvilkar, and Stephen McHattie.
Roger Moreau (Rupak Ginn) – the hero of Sami Khan’s Khoya – is indifferent to India’s tourist attractions. The young Toronto-raised, Indian-born man is on a quest to solve the mystery of his birth. That quest takes him to some of the country’s rougher patches, where Roger follows in the footsteps of the poor, the desperate and the borderline criminal, gradually unraveling the tangled circumstances of how he came to be adopted by a white Canadian couple. Unable to speak Hindi, he is met with hostility by non-English speakers, by locals who may have something to hide and with chilly reluctance by Subash Uncle (Ravi Khanvilkar), the one Indian willing to offer him a mattress on a floor.
“Khoya is really about home,” Khan explains, “and about how the spiritual feeling of it is much more powerful and important than the geographic idea of home. I grew up in Canada, the son of immigrants, and I’ve lived for many years in New York as an immigrant. So home is a complicated idea for me. I like to say home is wherever my wife is, and Khoya is about discovering that bliss.”
Khoya is rated PG.