Festival of Lights is a 2010 film directed and written by Shundell Prasad. It stars Melinda Shankar as the rebellious and mouthy Reshma, Jimi Mistry as Reshma's birth father, and Aidan Quinn as Reshma's stepfather. The film deals with Reshma's struggles to find her father whom she was separated from when she and her mother, played by Ritu Singh Pande, migrate from Guyana to New York City.
Plot Separated from her father when their family immigrates from Guyana, a young girl comes of age in New York City. Battling through a troubled youth and a broken relationship with her mother, she struggles to find peace and discover the secret of what happened to her father.
Cast Melinda Shankar as Reshma Jimi Mistry as Vishnu, Reshma's father Aidan Quinn as Adem, Reshma's stepfather Ritu Singh Pande as Meena, Reshma's mother Stephen Hadeed, Jr. as Ravin Nandanie Dudhnath as Asha Isabella A. Santos as Sandy Dion Matthews as Warden's Assistant
Production The film was directed, written and co-produced by Shundell Prasad. It was filmed in Georgetown, Guyana and Queens, New York.
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