Together with co-writer Sameer Gardezi, Khan succinctly summarizes Sami’s aggrandized memories of his father, which set the bar for his career ambitions. Sami will need all the help he can get to avoid disappointing his mother, dishonoring the villagers who bought his plane ticket to America and losing the trust of Ruby (Karen David), the unrequited object of his affection, who expects him to accomplish big things abroad.Īfter launching her filmmaking career with a series of shorts and some well-received music videos, Khan adeptly achieves a sometimes tricky balancing act, establishing a sympathetic protagonist while largely skirting the pitfalls of overt sentimentality often associated with immigrant stories. Of course, he’ll have to compete with every other draftsman seeking a permanent position, but he finds support from Alex (Jon Heder), the slacker son of the company CEO, who lacks any professional motivation himself.
Babu masterfully orchestrates the communal eating and sleeping arrangements in the cramped flat and serves as Sami’s principal cheerleader, urging him to rapidly make his way up the corporate ladder so that he can remain in the U.S. Their ringleader is a Pakistani named Babu ( Outsourced‘s Rizwan Manji), a former engineer and now a parking valet who still hasn’t obtained his residency status. With the clock ticking on his 30-day visa, Sami reluctantly moves into a one-room apartment on the wrong side of town that’s shared by a dozen men who have immigrated from South Asia, and although most are professionally trained, almost all are working menial jobs. Sami arrives in Chicago to accept a position with a large manufacturing firm, but there’s been some downsizing since he was recruited and the best the company can offer him is a temporary draftsman position in a cramped, collective basement office, preparing technical drawings for the imperious staff engineers.
in 1979 from a rural Indian village where he grew up under the watchful eyes of his caring mother and his now-deceased father, a renowned tiger hunter. Khan begins by evocatively establishing the foundations of young engineer Sami Malik’s (Danny Pudi) conflicted decision to emigrate to the U.S.
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