Fiery and sexy Gauri (Koel Purie, Everybody Says I'm Fine) is a TV soap writer reduced to drowning herself in alcohol after being dumped from an affair with a married producer. Karan (Rahul Bose, Mr. & Mrs. Iyer), the new TV editor for Gauri's soap, arrives in Mumbai and becomes a solace with his endearing friendship and heartwarming pursuance of her. Set in suburban Mumbai, White Noise is a comment on modern love, marriage, family and Mumbai, itself- the city of dreams, where expression and talent are often replaced by ego and judgment.

Leading TV director-producer and documentary filmmaker, Vinta Nanda, makes her first English language feature film in a setting she knows well - the bloodthirsty world of Bombay production houses churning out heady soap operas.

"White Noise is about how Gauri overcomes her demons to finally lead her life, the way she wants to. That's what I liked about Gauri, that even in adverse conditions, she refuses to compromise or give in to a situation."
- Koel Purie, interview with gMagazine

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Film: India Spiceland
Directed By: Rahul Das
Origin: India, 2005
Description: English w/ some Hindi, 12 minutes.

In an Indian grocery store, Maneesh tries sharing his nostalgia with his girlfriend, Tiffany, but finds her incapable of fully relating to him. Then, in walks the storeowner's daughter, Savitri, the ideal Indian beauty.

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 English - is this still foreign to Bollywood? - October 19, 2005
   Reviewer: Chetna Bail
White noise was true to its name. A lot of white noise and a serious topic lost in ill-timed hysteria and sub-standard acting. This brings to mind an interesting thought. English is a language that has stayed foreign to Bollywood in spite of being the mainstream language of urban India. It has been used in theatrical Shakespearian plays at high schools, but never been a part of mature real-life cinema in India. The likes of Smita Patil have portrayed hysteria realistically in multiple movies, but all of them in Hindi or Marathi. Is this just a case of a language that needs to come to its own in Indian cinema? It would most certainly help to have dialogue writers of the likes of Naushad helping English-speaking actors emote and sound realistic on screen.

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