Kali Ma

Screamingly funny short. Santosh is in gym class and peeking as hunky Peter comes out of the shower. Santosh is embarrassed, but thinks he was not caught. As he's at his locker getting changed, Peter attacks, pins him down, and writes rude comments all over his body. Meanwhile, Santosh's mother, Kali Ma (a huge woman), is in the kitchen making an elaborate Indian mean while singing and dancing to a Bollywood soundtrack. Santosh comes home and goes right up to his room, refusing to eat. Ma goes up to his bedroom to see what's wrong, finds Santosh cowering in the closet, sees that he's bruised and marked up, and finds out who did it. Then, Kali Ma goes out for revenge.

After a program of rather serious shorts, this movie was such a relief and had everyone laughing loudly. Nice production values, good funny acting. Also, the director and handsome and articulate and I hope he goes on to bigger projects.

An Indian boy is beaten up in high school because he's gay. His mother finds out and storms over to the house of the white kid who started it all. He's home alone and refuses to apologize for what he did. But you NEVER get an Indian mother mad. It escalates into a pretty violent but funny battle.

I wasn't quite sure what to make of this at first. The humor IS pretty dark and violence is not funny. But it's so over the top and (pretty obviously) faked that I was laughing myself silly by the end. The acting is excellent all around and it has a fun script. The ending is a little bit of a let down but everything before it is so good. A 9.