"Mumbhai Connection" - Feature Film Screening - UMFF 2011

Mumbhai Connection (f) directed by Atlanta Nagendra (Atlanta, GA) – Rated R - This feature film screening is part of the 10th Urban Mediamakers Film Festival. Mumbhai Connection, a Hindi independent film set and shot in Atlanta, Georgia. (dark comedy)

When Faisal, a hard working and honest Indian IT salesman in Atlanta, is laid off from his job, his troubles seem never-ending. He has massive debts and no employer wants to sponsor his work visa. Just as he’s ready to give up and go back to India, his fate changes. Through a series of fortuitous events in a wild 70s themed Indian party, Faisal lands a job at a hot new company called BA-IT. Ka-ching! Faisal is ecstatic at his good fortune.

However, things are not what they seem. Faisal learns that BA-IT provides IT services to the Atlanta mafia and is run by a shady Indian, Kal, who has links to the Mumbai underworld. Worse, Faisal is hounded by an eccentric undercover Indian cop to turn informer against Kal. Even worse, the Atlanta mafia do not want to buy from BA-IT anymore. His only friend seems to be his colleague – the gorgeous and innocent Tara. But what is her link to Kal?

Faisal’s very life is in danger as he struggles to figure out what to sell, to whom and how. Stuck with no way out, Faisal is forced to make his boldest sale yet – a sale that is going to require all the persuasion and creativity he can muster, an 'item number' and the courage to go boldly where no salesman has gone before.

Rated - R