Night of Henna
Encyclopedia
Night of Henna is a comedy film
directed by Hassan Zee (Bicycle Bride
), and is the first Pakistani
-American
feature film
. The film stars Pooja Kumar
, Reef Karim
, Nancy Carlin, Suhail Tayyeb, Ponni Swaminathan Chesser, and Craig Marker.
set up by her family and her true love.
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
directed by Hassan Zee (Bicycle Bride
Bicycle Bride
Bicycle Bride is a comedy film directed by Hassan Zee and starring Andreas Wilson, Melanie Kannokada, Shruti Tewari, Jessica Kitchens, Rajiv Neema, Veronica Valencia, and Jonathan Bock...
), and is the first Pakistani
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
-American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
. The film stars Pooja Kumar
Pooja Kumar (model)
Pooja Kumar is an American actress, producer, model and television hostess. She was crowned Miss India USA and has been a veejay for Channel V, a newsreader on the show Namaste America and has starred in such feature films as Kaadhal Rojave, Night of Henna, Flavors, Hiding Divya, Park Sharks,...
, Reef Karim
Reef Karim
Reef Karim is a physician and psychiatrist and is the host of the television show, House of Clues which airs on Court TV. He has also acted in movies such as, Lords of Dogtown , Night of Henna , and Flavors . He occasionally appears on CNN as a psychiatric commentator...
, Nancy Carlin, Suhail Tayyeb, Ponni Swaminathan Chesser, and Craig Marker.
Plot
A young Pakistani woman is forced to choose between an arranged marriageArranged marriage
An arranged marriage is a practice in which someone other than the couple getting married makes the selection of the persons to be wed, meanwhile curtailing or avoiding the process of courtship. Such marriages had deep roots in royal and aristocratic families around the world...
set up by her family and her true love.
External links
- Night of Henna at MetacriticMetacriticMetacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
- A. O. Scott, "A Collision of Cultures", April 22, 2005 review of Night of Henna at New York Times