Director: Manish Gupta

A plush American suburban home becomes, over a Holi weekend, the site where everything happens : the apparently well-off host begs for funds to keep afloat, his sexy missus swishes her thick hair, her sister’s strained marriage comes unhinged, her teenage nephew discovers that ‘He Has Needs’.

Other dramatis personae include a repressed wife, a potential filmmaker whose Muslim Identity Becomes A Problem, a rich Indian doctor who is Frisked Because He’s Brown, an attractive girl who Just Might Be Lesbian, and so on, and on.

So many issues make for confusion and incoherence. And an opportunity to bung in as many stereotypical Americans and NRIs as the script could accommodate: a dodgy Black neighbour, and a White cigar-chomping visitor have accents which belong in bad plays.

‘Karma aur Holi’ also boasts supermodel Naomi Campbell, who spends her time looking lost and forlorn. And one much-publicised lovemaking scene between Sushmita and Randeep, more awkward than steamy.