However, Tala's own sense of duty and cultural restraint cause her to pull away from Leyla and fly back to Jordan where the preparations for an ostentatious wedding are well under way.Īs family members descend and the wedding day approaches, the pressure mounts until Tala finally cracks and extricates herself. After a weekend getaway into the countryside, Tala and Leyla sleep together and the two women begin to fall in love. And Tala's forthright challenges to Leyla's beliefs begins a journey of self-awareness for Leyla.
Tala sees something unique in the artless, clumsy, sensitive Leyla who secretly works to become a writer. But back at work in London, Tala encounters Leyla, a young British Indian Muslim woman who is dating Tala's best friend Ali. In the upper echelons of traditional Middle Eastern society, wealthy Christian Palestinians Reema and Omar prepare for the marriage of their visiting daughter Tala to Hani in Jordan. The lead actresses, Ray and Sheth, also starred in Sarif's 2007 lesbian-themed historical drama film The World Unseen. It was released in different regions between 20. I Can't Think Straight was produced by Enlightenment Productions and distributed in the United States by Regent Releasing and Here! Films. The film stars Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth. Based on Sarif's 2008 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding when a turn of events causes her to have an affair, and subsequently fall in love, with another woman, Leyla, a British Indian. This book is the story of Tala struggling to find the courage to be herself and choosing love over family pressure to follow the conventional path.I Can't Think Straight is a 2008 British romantic drama film directed by Shamim Sarif.
While her sister is one of those snarky, dime dropping, back stabbing, doing it for your own good little sneak, and a hypocrite as well her husband Kareem is a good match for her, neither of them exhibit any integrity in the movie, or the book. Tala's chain smoking mother comes across as almost a comic book, nighttime soap opera (like our mothers used to watch) villain.
Leyla is Indian and though her parents, her mother in particular, aren't enthusiastic about their daughter being gay they are much less over the top than Tala's Jordanian family in their opposition to this relationship. Listening to this book I now understand the movie a little better than I did at the time.
I saw this movie a few years ago and liked it hey what gay woman wouldn't like watching Lisa Ray kissing another beautiful woman and Sheetal Sheth it totally stunning.
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