[Reader-list] Bugaboo

[Harsh Kapoor]

Bugaboo
A feature film in English, 82 minutes

Directed by
Sujit Saraf

Synopsis
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BUGABOO is a Silicon Valley film. It has been produced by people who 
live and work in Silicon Valley and who have prospered with the 
high-tech boom of the nineties. The Internet and the personal 
computer, while creating Silicon Valley, have also created armies of 
well-paid Indian professionals who lead a curious existence: as 
professionals they constitute the epicenter of America's recent 
growth binge, but as individuals they continue to stay inside 
cocooned, secure Indian communities which are quite divorced from all 
things American.

A group of such engineers defies the even flow of this existence by 
introducing "random disturbances" into their lives. These deviations 
from normal routine punctuate the film until they finally lead to a 
"grand deviance", unthinkable for sober, law-abiding engineers from 
India. It is then, at the end of the film, that they discover simple 
solutions to seemingly complex problems in their lives.

BUGABOO does not belittle or ridicule the achievements of Indian 
professionals in Silicon Valley. It questions the worth of those 
achievements. It wonders aloud if Utopia is really quite dull.

BUGABOO is the first film of its kind. It has been made by, for and 
about Silicon Valley engineers. It should also have a wider appeal 
among expatriate Indians and Indians in the urban centers of India.

The film was shot on location in the San Francisco Bay Area during 
the months of February and March 1999 and was released in July 1999.

Naatak Films http://www.naatak.com/

and

Pygmy Mammoth Productions http://www.kilima.com/pygmymammoth


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