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I CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT

By Shamim SARIF

ENLIGHTENMENT PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Shamim SARIF
- Writer(s)
- Shamim SARIF
- Cast
- Lisa RAY, Sheetal SHETH, Nina WADIA, Antonia FRERING
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-DE25-0000-K-0000-0000-E
- EIDR
- 10.5240/A554-5AFF-5943-59AC-79A3-4
- Producer(s)
- Hanan KATTAN
- Synopsis
- Tala, a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian origin prepares for her elaborate wedding with Hani,
  her Jordanian fiancé, when she encounters Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her
  best friend Ali.
  Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other but the
  attraction is immediate. Tala’s feisty nature provokes Leyla out of her shell and soon both women reveal
  their feelings for each other.
  But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made and escapes back to Jordan where her chain-smoking high-brow mother finishes preparations for an ostentatious wedding. As family members descend and the wedding day approaches, simmering family tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself.
  Meanwhile heart-broken Leyla relishes her newly found sense of identity and self-respect and moves on with her new life – much to the shock of her tradition-loving Indian parents.
  Single again, Tala flies back to London but it will take more than just a date set up by Ali and Leyla’s
  sister Zara to win Leyla back.