Side Streets

Side Streets

🎞️ Movie 116 min US
โ˜… 5.5 /10 1998

New York City is close to boiling over on the hottest day of the year.

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.

Cast

Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi
Mrs. Chandra Bipin Raj
Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino
Sylvie Otti
Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor
Vikram Raj
Leon
Leon
Errol Boyce
Art Malik
Art Malik
Bipin Raj
Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson
Marisol Hidalgo
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Brenda Boyce
Mirjana Joković
Mirjana Joković
Elena Iscovescu
John Ortiz
John Ortiz
Ramon Yanes
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David Vadim
Josif Iscovescu
Evan Lurie
Evan Lurie
Composer
Russell Lee Fine
Russell Lee Fine
Cinematographer

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