A comic clash of cultures, values and sexuality, Touch of Pink is a romantic comedy featuring Alim (Mistry), a young South Asian-Canadian, now living in London, who is so caught up in the romance, style and dreams of the old movies that he thinks hes living with the spirit of Cary Grant (MacLachlan). But Alims ideal life in London with lover Giles (Holden-Ried) begins to unravel when his mother Nuru (Mathew) shows up. Shes come to London to find Alim a proper Ismaili-Muslim girlfriend and to con
vince him to come home to Canada and join the family for his cousins spectacular wedding. Once in Toronto, Alims different worlds begin to collide and he has to choose between his fantasy life with Cary and the earthier pleasures of real life. |