Director Sujata Day on Exploring Mental Health in Feature Film Debut 'Definition Please'
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hollywoodreporter.comWhen Sujata Day set out to write her first feature film, Definition Please, her idea was to explore the life of an Indian-American woman who once won a national spelling bee.
Rather than have Monica, of whom Day plays in the film, follow a traditionally expected trajectory of becoming a doctor, lawyer, engineer or business executive, she opted for Monica's life to take a different route.
Instead, Monica is the line-in caretaker of her sick mother, and the sparring partner for her estranged brother. What follows for Monica, her brother Sonny (Russian Doll'sRitesh Rajan)and their mother Jaya (Anna Khaja ofThe Good Place) is a journey of reconciliation in the face of shared challenges.
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