GHOST TOWN, NM
NEELAN PATEL (PITA), the obstinate Indian American father of AMISHA, insists his daughter marry the rich but foolish RAKISH LAGHARI. But AMISHA loves JUAN ARAVALO, a Mexican American boy. Soon illusion and reality, past and present, serious and absurd all mix when the young lovers escape to a New Mexico ghost town commune. They are pursued by her parents, RAKISH and a motley crew of amateur sleuths-cum-videographers.
NEELAN PATEL (PITA), the obstinate Indian American father of AMISHA, insists his daughter marry the rich but foolish RAKISH LAGHARI. But AMISHA loves JUAN ARAVALO, a Mexican American boy.
1. AMISHA and JUAN escape to a ghost town commune in New Mexico where JUAN was raised. 2. Against his wife, MAAN’s, wishes, NEELAN has the incompetent RAKISH and two friends, YING, and LUCIAN, follow AMISHA and JUAN. 3. As enticement, he proposes the trio create a documentary of the ghost town. 4. But NEELAN has no real trust in them, and he and his wife join the pursuit, despite NEELAN’s fear that the ghosts of husband-and-wife serial killers may lurk in the ghost town. 5. The ghost town is already inhabited. YURI, a clown, had escaped a Russian circus. ADIDAYO (ADI), gay, escaped his African homeland. KIA and MARLEY, the mother and father of this motely group. 6. The inhabitants of the ghost town soon delight in playing tricks upon RAKISH and his friends, pretending to be actual ghosts. 7. RAKISH, a Dungeon and Dragon fanatic, already has an overactive imagination and soon falls for the actual inhabitants’ escapades. 8. The trio are soon split apart, as are the adult PATELS, with each confronting his or her spectral apparition. Gunfighters, sheriffs, painted ladies, and more soon occupy the haunted ghost town. 9. As expected, NEELAN soon suspects a ghostly serial killer is pursuing him. 10. Faced with the reality that his wife and daughter are now ghostly painted ladies, NEELAN agrees to let her marry whom she wishes. 11. In a scene paralleling that in “A Winter’s Tale,” wife and daughter are brought back to life. 12. Eventually all’s well that ends well. YING and LUCIAN, with the help of ghost town inhabitants, view themselves in a healthier and renewed light. 13. Meantime, RAKISH continues to wander the streets and buildings of ghost town capturing ghostly images for his future Oscar-winning documentary.
I love to explore and write, in serious and comic forms, stories of those who, through choice or happenstance, find themselves strangers in a strange land (or even in their own land).
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