Side Streets
Director: Tony Gerber
Character: Marisol Hidalgo
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 131 min / USA: 116 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Release Date: Premiere September 06, 1998 Venice Film Festival, April 25, 1999 (UK release)
Principal Cast: Valeria Golino, Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Miho Nikaido, David Vadim, Art Malik, Leon, Joanna Adler, Peter Appel, Victor Argo
Linkage: Official, IMDB, Photos

Plot Summaries: From the IMDB

Staten Island Cab-driver, Bipin Raj, picks up a passenger, mistakes her for a movie star, but tells her that his brother, Vikram Raj, is a very well-known Bollywood mega-star with millions of fans, and is currently living with him and his family of his wife and two children. But all is not hunky dory in the Raj household, for Mrs. Chandra Bipin Raj, who initial thrill at meeting her mega-star brother-in-law, has shimmered down, and she is anxious for him to leave. Vikram Raj, no doubt may have been a handsome man in his younger years, but now he is alcoholic, grossly overweight, macho, and lazy. But all is not lost, for Vikram has several ardent fans visit him, and dance to his filmy songs and tunes, much to Chandra's exasperation. Then a few days later, Vikram claims that Al Pacino has phoned him and wants to meet and discuss a movie script. The Raj family give him a fond farewell. This short story as well as the story of a dress-designer; a drug-dealer working at a meat-shop; a beauty queen's slacker husband ET AL comprise of people of diverse cultures living their separate, yet inter-connected lives in this busy metropolis.
Summary written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)