{"id":3894,"date":"2025-04-15T21:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/nice-indian-boy-review-jonathan-groff-shines-in-cross-cultural-romance\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T21:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:29:35","slug":"nice-indian-boy-review-jonathan-groff-shines-in-cross-cultural-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/nice-indian-boy-review-jonathan-groff-shines-in-cross-cultural-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nice Indian Boy\u2019 Review: Jonathan Groff Shines in Cross-Cultural Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Nice Indian Boy<\/em> balances humor, heartbreak and cultural nuance without pandering. Courtesy of MPRM Communications<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How refreshing it is when a small film with a big heart comes along unannounced and captures your affection. A surprise hit across America as well as a popular streaming link, <\/span>A Nice Indian Boy <\/span><\/i>is a charming, feel-good movie about Naveen, a gay Indian doctor whose conventional family wants him to make their lives complete by meeting the perfect girl and getting married. They already have a grown daughter who is unhappily married and getting a divorce. Their hopes for completing a perfect family unit depend on the devoted but desperately lonely Naveen.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for them all, his perfect mate turns out to be another boy\u2014a very attractive, appealing photographer named Jay, played by the award-winning Broadway musical comedy star Jonathan Groff<\/a>, who won last year\u2019s Tony award for the revival of Stephen Sondheim<\/a>\u2019s <\/span>Merrily We Roll Along <\/span><\/i>and is currently packing them as legendary Bobby Darin<\/a> in the new show <\/span>Just in Time.<\/span><\/i> At first, it seems like an illogical romantic duo, until the realism in Eric Randall<\/a>\u2019s ardent screenplay, winningly directed by Roshan Sethi<\/a>, explains that Jay was an orphan adopted by Indian parents and has a soft spot in his heart for his Indian upbringing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A NICE INDIAN BOY<\/b>\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00a0<\/strong>(4\/4 stars<\/em>)<\/strong>
Directed by: <\/strong> Roshan Sethi<\/span>
Written by: Eric Randall<\/span><\/strong>
Starring: <\/strong>Karan Soni, Jonathan Groff, Sunita Manu<\/span>
Running time:<\/strong> 96 mins.<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n

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Jay is ready after a second date to take the relationship a step further\u2014toward commitment and marriage and being accepted again as part of a real family from India. What follows is a long, tortured journey toward compromise, tolerance and acceptance, full of speed bumps and potholes. Both actors are so natural, endearing and relentlessly honest that they meld like coffee and cream. There\u2019s poignancy in the love they share when they are together, and in the pain they feel when they\u2019re apart, and I seriously doubt there\u2019s a soul in the audience who won\u2019t root for them to make it. There\u2019s also a lot of tenderness and humor in the courtship and the eventual wedding you won\u2019t forget.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s wit as well in Naveen\u2019s family members, who try to hold onto the traditions they respect, the children who didn\u2019t pan out the way they hoped and planned, and the needs of everyone old and young alike to adjust to life between old values and modern emotional demands. It\u2019s a film of both subtlety and seriousness, completely different from anything I\u2019ve seen lately and laudably without a shred of sentimentality. Somewhere in the middle comes the reality of how the more different we all are, the more we all have in common.<\/span><\/p>\n

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