The Gogol Family
The movie’s focal point was on an Indian immigrant couple coming from Calcutta to the United States after an arranged marriage. They give birth to their son, and without even thinking name him Gogol after a famous Russian author. Gogol’s father gave him that name serving a link to a secret past, and the hope of a better future. The family is forced to come to terms with living in a new culture and introducing their son to their heritage. The movie shows the families struggles, and hardships, cultural values/norms, deviance, rituals, cultural identity, gender roles, and how they balance the two cultures. The Indian immigrant’s son Gogol had little interest in his Indian heritage. Reaching his teenage years, Gogol became an Americanized teenager