Father’s Day Movie Marathon

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MOVIE
DIRECTOR
STORYLINE
Daddy’s Little Girls
Tyler Perry
Father fights to save 3 daughters from their mother and her drug-dealing boyfriend
Lee Daniels The Butler
Lee Daniels
Father is a butler in the White House, he wants son to do the same, son prefers to join protests against American racism
Dance With Me
Randa Haines
Starring Chayanne a Puerto Rican singer, Vanessa Williams and Kris Kristofferson, man helps his Mexican ex-girlfriend’s son to come to America
Bride and Prejudice (English)
Gurinder Chadha
Woman in India is desperately looking for sons-in-law, their father is in no hurry, loves 4 daughters to bits, lovely chemistry.
Paa (Hindi film)
Balki
Man discovers that his girlfriend did not have an abortion, meets his son accidentally
WAQT (Hindi Film)
Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Father wants son to take over family business, son wants to party and be an actor
Hum Tum (Hindi Film)
Kunal Kohli
Father travels intensely as a photographer, son grows up to be a playboy of the first order
Aa Ab Laut Chalen (Hindi Film)
Rishi Kappor
Man fakes his death in India to escape his father, wife and son. Son and father meet in New York later.
Kuch Na Ka Ho (Hindi film)
Rohan Sippy
Man runs away with secretary leaving pregnant wife, comes back when son is five (I think)
Vivah (Hindi film)
Sooraj Barjatya
Man’s brother dies, he brings up his niece like his own daughter, wants lavish wedding for her, his wife hates her.

 Nonqaba waka Msimang is the author of Sweetness the novel.


 


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