Pardesi
English
Kirpa comes to Canada for her dancing dream from India. Rejections from dancing schools here almost wipes out her dreams. She realizes she has to secure a job at a cafe to save up for her dream. However, her interview doesn’t go through well because she is poor in English. Her mind is dragged back to what her aunties said bout her hopeless dream. Soon, her mom, calls her for checking if everything goes well and tells her to meet uncle Raja, who works at truck yard, no matter what. She realizes she needs to survive first so she accepts the truck driving job with consistently chasing her dream.
Presented as Part Of Program #5 – WESTCOAST TALES – SHORTS
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