Article: Touch of Pink: a Canadian cross-cultural comedy.(Cover Story)

Location, location, location. Absent or present, it seems to be as important to the Canadian film industry as it is to the real estate business. Canadian expatriate Ian Iqbal Rashid, who wrote and directed the soon-to-be-released romantic comedy Touch of Pink, is fully cognizant of the politics of location in his feature directorial debut. Alim (Jimi Mistry), an East Indian/Ismaili Torontonian living in London, England, resists telling his judgmental drama queen of a mother (Suleka Mathew) that he and his white British roommate, Giles (Kristen Holden-Reid), are a gay couple. The central character, however, in this, yet another in a long tradition of border-crossing ...

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