Mahima back in role as Sikh Widow in 9/11 related movie 

Missing for sometime from the silver screen, Mahima Chaudhry will be back on screen early this year. In Tanuja Chandra's Hope and a Little Sugar, based on the life of Asians in the US post-9/11, she plays a Sikh widow who is victimised during the crisis. The film also features Anupam Kher and Vikram Chatwal.

Hope And A Little Sugar is an American production set in New York City in the months preceding the 9/11 attacks and the weeks following it. It is a sensitively and succinctly told Sikh-Muslim love story that explores various levels of racial hatred. Chandra co-wrote the script with New York-based filmmaker Glenn Russow. Chandra was offered the film over the internet and met the producers, Russow and Scott Pardo, for the first time only when she landed in New York with her crew for the shoot. Music is by Wayne Sharpe.

Mahima plays Saloni Oberoi, whose husband dies in the North Tower when the World Trade Center comes crashing down. Saloni runs a candy and sweet shop called Hope and A Little Sugar. The film also touches on the 1992 Bombay riots. “I was working as a TV journalist during the riots and lived through them so I always felt it was important to have them book-end the film,” said Chandra. 

9 January 2008