Themes: Mothers and Sons, Culture Clash, Questioning Sexuality
Main Cast: Jimi Mistry, Kyle MacLachlan, Kristen Holden-Reid, Suleka Mathew, Brian George, Veena Sood
Release Year: 2003
Country: CA
Run Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Canadian writer/director Ian Iqbal Rashid makes his feature film debut with the romantic comedy Touch of Pink. Jimi Mistry plays Alim, an young gay Ismali-Canadian living in a fashionable section of London. He has an active fantasy life involving Kyle MacLachlan, who appears as the charming ghost of Cary Grant. Alim also has an active social life in the real world with his actual boyfriend Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried). His life of leisure is interrupted when his mother Nuru (Suleka Mathew) arrives in town unexpectedly from Toronto. She also has a secret plan to take him back with her to Canada so he can settle down and find a nice Muslim girl to marry. Touch of Pink premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
Raoul Bhaneja - Khaled; Liisa Repo-Martell - Delia
Credit
Humberto Garcia - Art Director, N. Trent Hurry - Art Director, Brent Barclay - Associate Producer, Andrea Glinski - Associate Producer, Joyce Schure - Costume Designer, Ian Iqbal Rashid - Director, Susan Maggi - Editor, Charlotte Mickie - Executive Producer, Lena Cordina - Line Producer, Andrew Lockington - Composer (Music Score), Gavin Mitchell - Production Designer, David A. Makin - Cinematographer, Martin Pope - Producer, Jennifer Kawaja - Producer, Julia Sereny - Producer, Bill McMillan - Sound/Sound Designer, Ian Iqbal Rashid - Screenwriter
The movie concerns, Alim (Jimi Mistry), a young gay Ismaili Muslim man. Born in Toronto, he moved to London to get away from his conservative upbringing. He faces the hardships of coming out of the closet to his mother Nuru (Suleka Mathew), as well as hardships in his relationship with Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried). Alim has an imaginary friend (or maybe a guardian angel or ghost friend, depending on how literally or symbolically one takes the film) who is supposedly Cary Grant. Grant (Kyle MacLachlan) gives Alim advice when Alim is in trouble. Unfortunately, the advice often seems to make more trouble.
