Writer-director Geeta Malik’s “India Sweets and Spices” is set in the milieu of the Indian community in a New Jersey suburb, where the wealthy families with their weekend parties look down on the working-class fellow South Asians.
The pic opened at Tribeca last year and played in theaters and will be on Hulu after March 8.
This interview was edited for clarity and space.Where did you get the idea for this film from? Did you go to these kinds of parties?I went to these kinds of parties very often as a child.
I grew up in Aurora, Colo., and the community there at the time was smallish, it wasn’t a huge community.
We’d go to our friends’ and our neighbors’ dinner parties.
It was just a way to keep up with the community and eat our own food and just relax and enjoy the company of
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