![]() The scientist in him runs through the math of what this new virus holds. That might be Rita, who bills herself as pescatarian, a teetotaler and “old fashioned.” She barely flinches when he mentions how many children he wants and that they’d live with his mother.īut on that first date, in March, we see the masks. ![]() He’s a vegetarian non-drinker looking for a “traditional” bride. The lake is dried up, and their misconnection seems just as arid.īeing another in a long line of “on the spectrum” comically-fictional science nerds, Ravi is methodical in his approach, keeping a spreadsheet of his dates, the “follow-ups” and rejections, plunging ever onward with his mother co-conspiring and looking over his shoulder the whole while. He’s a university lab researcher who stops by on a business trip and takes Rita for a romantic picnic by a lake he found online. The sites shown here are aimed at mothers who want to marry off their sons and daughters, and who compile - often on their own - the “profiles” that advertise their offspring’s virtues and attributes. The script, co-written by Soni, introduces the outside world to the online era in arranged Indian marriages. It’s about characters who can be tactless, mean, dishonest and judgmental and who are colorfully portrayed by “Deadpool’s” favorite cabbie, Karan Soni, and by “Bad Education” and “Blockers” alumna Geraldine Viswanathan. “7 Days” is an intimate, understated gem, a sort of pandemic “Big Sick.” And its 85 minutes take its two leads, and those of us watching it, on a journey from brittle to loggerheads and into something almost profound in its deeply romantic Big Message. But there have been some minor marvels that came out of this process. The limitations in cast and restrictions in locations narrowed the range of stories that can be told and how. As exercises, it has been incredibly tempting for filmmakers to figure out movies they could make while locked-down, “shelter-in-place” and what-not during the global pandemic.
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