Asha and Ravi are Indian American twentysomethings who pretend to date in order to keep their families from hassling them to find spouses. The one thing they didn’t plan for was falling in love.

Starring Pallavi Sharda (Tom & Jerry, The One) and Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi, How I Met Your Father), Wedding Season is a romantic comedy about the generational conflicts around identity and marriage in Indian American families. The movie is directed by Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon, Failure to Launch) with a debut screenplay by Shiwani Srivastava.

Release date

Wedding Season is available on Netflix on Aug. 4.

Trailer

Watch the official Netflix trailer for Wedding Season.

From Left: Pallavi Sharda as Asha, Veena Sood as Suneeta, Sean Kleier as Nick, Ari Afsar as Priya, Rizwan Manji as Vijay in Wedding Season.

Cast

The cast for Wedding Season also includes Veena Sood (Welcome to Marwen, Super PupZ), Rizwan Manji (Schitt’s Creek, Perfect Harmony), Ari Afsar (Canal Street, American Idol), Sean Kleier (Ant-Man and the Wasp) and Manoj Sood (Snowpiercer, Salvation). Read the cast guide for more information.

 From Left: Pallavi Sharda as Asha and Suraj Sharma as Ravi in Wedding Season. 

Plot

Asha Maurya is a brilliant and idealistic economist who’s focused on her career and fed up with the pressure from her family to marry. Hoping to launch a microlending program for women in Southeast Asia, Asha welcomes a respite from her overbearing mother’s pestering. After reluctantly going on a date with local bachelor Ravi Shah, she ropes him into pretending they’re an item. Meanwhile, Ravi struggles to earn his father’s respect and hopes a promising relationship might make things better, even if it’s a facade. Asha and Ravi don’t exactly get along at first, which is precisely why they’re confident their plan will work — until they actually start falling for each other. 

Setting

Wedding Season is set in northern New Jersey.