We decided on that structure just because it felt more emotional to see them to describe the ways in which they met each other, which seem honestly preposterous. Instead of sprinkling them throughout the movie, we have them bookending the movie. And we decided to do a different structure than When Harry Met Sally. One of the couples are Karan’s parents and the others are aunts, uncles, cousins – people with the exception of one couple, related to us. Initially we conceived it as copying When Harry Met Sally, which has interviews with couples throughout that are scripted and then performed by actors and we were going to do the exact same thing, but with Indians, but then we decided instead to interview our family members.
At the start of the film, 7 Days features actual Indian couples who got arranged marriages.
#ARRANGED MARRIAGE USA MOVIE#
The movie features Soni’s Ravi, who is a more straight-laced traditionalist who is ready to get married and have children, whereas his prolonged date Viswanathan’s Rita is a closet drinker who only entertains her mom’s plans to set her up with a husband to keep the peace. We were definitely drawing on how we felt and then many couples at the time. in quarantine more or less because his show had been pushed due to COVID. I was working in the hospital and was in L.A. We’ve been dating now for three and a half years but were in a long distance relationship when this movie was created. When I spoke to the filmmakers, Sethi shared the backstory of their romantic comedy with these words: 7 Days was co-written by Soni alongside director and real-life physician Roshan Sethi, who also co-created the Fox series, The Resident.
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