As Gogol attempts to forge his destiny – rejecting his given name, dating a rich American girl, heading to study architecture at Yale – his parents cling to their Bengali traditions. As a first-generation American teenager, Gogol must learn to tread a razor-thin line between his Bengali roots and his American birthright in the search for his own identity. But life isn’t as easy for Gogol as his parents might wish. Under pressure to name him quickly, Ashoke settles on Gogol (Kal Penn), after the famous Russian author – a name that serves as a link to a secret past and, Ashoke hopes, a better future. Virtual strangers to one another and with Ashima now living in a new and very strange land, their relationship quickly takes a turn when Ashima gives birth to a son. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke (Irrfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) jet off from sweltering Calcutta to a wintry New York where they begin their new life together.
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