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Ashoke and Ashima are a young couple
who are brought together in an arranged marriage and soon leave Calcutta to seek
their fortune in America. They learn to deal with the coolness and
superficiality of life in New York, even as they revel in the opportunities the
city offers them. Before long, Ashima gives birth to a baby boy, and pressed to
choose a name, they dub the infant Nikhil, though he soon picks up the nickname
Gogol. By the time the child is old enough to attend school, he insists upon
being called Gogol at all times, and he displays little interest in his Indian
heritage. Several years on, Gogol has decided he wants to be called Nick and has
become a thoroughly Americanized teenager, openly rebelling against his parents,
smoking marijuana in his room, and dating Maxine (Jacinda Barrett), a preppy
blonde from a wealthy family. Ashoke and Ashima are uncertain about how to deal
with their son's attempts to cut himself off from their culture, but Nick begins
expressing some uncertainty himself when he meets Moushumi (Zuleikha Robinson),
a beautiful girl who also comes from a family of Indian expatriates. Nick is
soon is torn between Indian traditions and the modern Bostonian lifestyle.
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