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Ole 2022-11-02 02:38:37
Follow your blessings——Comment on the movie "Same Name and Same Surname"
This is a movie related to the name. An Indian couple Asoke and Asima came to the distant and unfamiliar United States to earn a living immediately after their wedding. Husband Asoko named his son Gogol born in the United States after his favorite author.
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Jevon 2022-11-06 06:43:50
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One of the best movies about cross-cultural (immigrant) identity I have seen so far. The questions raised by the film are more interesting than the film itself.
My parents immigrated to India from the first generation and faced a culture and environment that was very different from that of my own...
Josh Grisetti
Extended Reading
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Gogol Ganguli: There are some things you should know. Um, no kissing, no holding hands. My parents are not Lydia and Gerald. I've never seen them touch, let alone anything else.
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Ashima A. Ganguli: You know, by the time I was your age, I had already celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary.
Gogol Ganguli: This is America, Ma. People have twins when they're 60.
