ALL THAT GLITTERS IN THE WEST IS NOT GOLD
Rudyard Kipling, wrote eloquently in a poem: “...East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet...” He perhaps forgot that nothing can stop a good story from conjoining the two cardinal directions. ' ಅಮೇರಿಕಾ ! ಅಮೇರಿಕಾ ! ' ( ' America! America! ' ) is a1995 Kannada family drama that connects, nay, juxtaposes the Orient with the Occident on a socio-cultural and economic canvas. It not only won critical appreciation, but also met with great commercial success. Written by the director, Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar, the plot revolves around bosom childhood friends in a coastal village of Karnataka– Surya ( Ramesh Aravind ), Shashank ( Akshay Anand ) and Bhoomi (Hema Panchamukhi). Each one has a different outlook towards life, not to mention disparate goals and aspirations. Shashank has a modern bent of mind; enamoured by Western culture, he flies out to the United States in search of a better career. Surya is poles apart; being traditional, he values In...