![]() ![]() Bombay Spleen has been produced by Dave Sharma, once a dhol-thumping fixture when the musical Bombay Dreams played on Broadway.Īmong the many reasons for the sequel’s delay were two: Hidier’s daughters, now aged nine and five. ![]() ![]() The dozen-year gap ("the gestation period," she calls it) betweeen the two happened because of motherhood.Ī dozen years later, Hidier returns with a sequel, Bombay Blues, journeying into India, with a soundtrack of its own. Getting the NRI voice: Tanuja Desai Hidier and her two novels. Perhaps it’s fitting that taken together, these two pop cultural milestones make for American Born Confused Desi, the much-caricatured ABCD. In 2001, there was the cult classic film, American Desi, Kal Penn’s ticket from New Jersey to Hollywood.Ī year later, there was the novel, Born Confused, that turned its author, Tanuja Desai Hidier, into a chronicler of the chronic identity chaos that affects the desi diaspora. In the early years of this century, a new genre defined a new generation of Indian-Americans coming of age. ![]()
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