One of the best films i have seen

Beautiful, moving film.

Absolutely brilliant

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

We've got a good cast: Romano, Hunter, Bryant all support Kumail and Zoe in a tender little film about finding love.I have to explain some things: I was off in a parallel universe from mid 1990, so I hadn't seen SNL or Everyone Loves Raymond or really, any television since then. But some culture managed to seep in, so I know who Ray Romano is, one of my favourite movies is "ALWAYS" with Holly Hunter, and I like Aidy Bryant.I'm a HUGE fan of stand up. Every Sunday evening was capped by the Improv, something that I've missed for a quarter century.You'll enjoy this movie if you like behind the scenes moments, the insanity of home life, and how a lasting relationship can blossom. It manages to come full circle in a very lyrical way.

The Big Sick is a film about the interracial relationship of a Pakistani Muslim guy and an American girl. The story is loosely based on the real-life of the starring actor Kumail Nanjiani and his wife Emily. It is also written by the couple, and got itself a nomination for the Best Original Screenplay. The Big Sick has a runtime of 117 minutes and released on January 20, 2017 in Sundance Film Festival. The Big Sick is one of the films in which you can feel the reality American culture and their lifestyle. The Big Sick is produced by Judd Apatow. I am very familiar with his work and know what to expect from his films, but this film manages to put itself in a totally different place than his usual productions. In The Big Sick, we see Kumail, playing himself, as an amateur standup comedian and an Uber driver. During one of his performances he meets Emily and they start dating against his family's general belief that he must get married to a Pakistani woman. In the meantime Emily contracts a mysterious illness which leads Kumail to face Emily's parents and his inner feelings and question the motives of his true beliefs.The film's genres are comedy, drama and romance but the story is deeper than that. It gets its opening point from the religion and cultural differences, but I find it pretty useless to see the scenes in which an American still asks the Muslim guy about 9/11, or when Kumail is on the stage, someone from the audience yells at him to go back to ISIS. These scenes make the film go towards a different direction than it is meant to, because, from the beginning, the director wants us to believe that this is a romantic comedy, but out of nowhere it dives into political sensitivity and shows scenes like these I have mentioned above. We get the idea that Muslims have a lot of issues after 9/11, but after all those years, still using this as an argument is senseless. After these scenes I ask myself; What is the real point of this film? Is it a romantic comedy or is it just one of the thousand films in which people get to anticipate the problems of Muslims? In my opinion director Michael Showalter tries to create a rhythm but doesn't do a very good job. This is the only weak point of The Big Sick.The film has most of the key points of a romantic comedy and you get to see some dramatic scenes as well. The director manages to combine these genres in harmony but this doesn't mean that The Big Sick doesn't have the clichés of these genres. The background of the film is built on a socially sensitive subject called religion. The main characters have different backgrounds, and in the beginning this barrier seems to be the only reason why they can't be together. Because we understand from the film that Pakistani people are conservative and marry only among themselves. Similar story was issued in the My Big Fat Greek Wedding. There, the groom didn't belong to a different religion but a different sect of Christianism. Here, they not only belong to a completely different religion but also different countries. As a Muslim guy, Kumail has no difference than an American, but his background still has the roots and signs of his home country. When you pay attention to the progression of the film, you see that Kumail questions his religion by asking why a Muslim guy must have a beard for example. The actor who is playing himself as Kumail Nanjiani refuses to practice Islam in his real life. I find his gestures and mimics pretty natural and his natural reactions to the events creates the funny atmosphere of the film. I like the fact that his behaviors are completely natural and because of that I have the feeling that I watch his real life.Kumail's progress as a decent human being is incredibly successful given the fact that his family is religious and doesn't accept anything other than Islam and its rules. As a Muslim guy, I will never understand people who leave their own country because of living conditions and move to a different country in which they use the benefits of that country but refuse to be a part of their society. From their lifestyles to the food they are eating, they still live the life of Pakistan but in much better conditions. They create a closed culture and doesn't let anyone enter. In the mean time when they get sick, they don't hesitate to use health services of that country for example. Even though these are valid points, still it doesn't serve the purpose of a romantic comedy.

Chronicling the semi-autobiographical story of the courtship of a real-life inter-racial couple, "The Big Sick" is a drama rom-com set in Chicago. Stand-up comedian of Pakistani-origin, Kumail Nanjiani (playing himself) and an American psychology student Emily Gardner (Zoe Kazan, "What If...") couldn't struggle long enough to keep their romance alive when one unfortunate day, Emily takes critically ill only to be put into an induced coma. What follows goes beyond the tests of conventional norms of human relationships which would shape the lives of one another.Kumail and the "real" Emily (now happily married) pen a tale that at its heart is about "togetherness". Carefully touching upon tedious conventional issues of arranged marriages and inter-cultural faith it thankfully doesn't make things too serious through its smart and often brainy humourous- exchanges. At the same time, the film freely steps away from the stereotype of sacrificing family for love and vice-versa. In a scene, Kumail comes to dinner to his parents (Anupam Kher and Zenobia Shroff, "Ek Mai aur Ekk Tu") who disowned him for falling for a non-Muslim, where he adeptly declares via conversation display cards that "he refuses to allow them to reject him". Similarly, before Emily's surgery while still in medical coma, her parents (Oscar winner Holly Hunter and Ray Romano, "Everybody Loves Raymond") enter the film with an air of parental protectiveness which though, staunch and skeptic grows upon the viewers quite like the way it did for Kumail in both reel and real-life. What's subtly remarkable in the film is the usage of "stand-up" performance portions. "Heckling" marks the first meeting occasion for our protagonists; plus, as a spot when Emily's distraught parents lashing out a racist attendee in one of Kumail's bits and later, improving their bond with him. And then at a beautiful climax, when a heckle calls back a gush of heartwarming emotions.So, is "The Big Sick" an overly sensitive film? Yes and No. Some may call it "excessively pleasant" citing it carries a thoroughly positive undercurrent without overflowing its goodness factor. However, it doesn't get mushy about romance and depicts a multitude of human-bonds without overstaying the spot. Involving some heavily seasoned writing skills (a rightful Academy Award nomination for the Best Original Screenplay) with one of the best casting choices (esp. with Zoe and Holly), it won't be an exaggeration to call it one amongst the marvels of the previous year's new-age independent English cinema which righteously deserves to be watched and remembered.A homely-likable 8.25/10

It's not what I expected. When I first saw the cover art, I guessed that it was about a guy from the middle east who falls in love with a white girl but hides the relationship from his parents because they would be unhappy about it. I imagined a boring, predictable run-of-the-mill rom-com. But that's not what The Big Sick is. It's so much more. My prediction was partially accurate. Kumail has devout and traditional Pakistani parents who want him to marry a Pakistani girl. He does fall in love with a white girl (Emily) and subsequently keep their relationship a secret from his parents. Then she gets sick. Doctors put her into a medically induced coma. Kumail stays the night with her in the hospital, waking up the next morning to see her parents have arrived. Kumail and Emily's parents spend countless hours together over the next few weeks, bonding over their shared intense experience. Kumail realizes how much he loves Emily and is forced to consider the reality of telling his family about her and fight 1400 years of Pakistani tradition. The film manages to avoid all the possible pitfalls that surround a story like this. It somehow even manages to be surprising, which seems impossible, given that it is still a romantic comedy.Its greatest strength is its authenticity. All the characters feel fully formed. Part of that is because this is a true story, part of that is the exceptional acting from every key performer, and part of that is brilliant, Oscar-nominated writing. It perfectly balances humor and heart. This is a heavy, hearty story, so humor is vital. But, too much humor would take away from the seriousness and make the conversations feel fake. Every conversation sounds real. Every story does too. Each detail is ironed out.Maybe this shouldn't come as too big a shock since Kumail has undoubtedly been telling this story for years. But, there is huge difference between telling this story at a dinner party and executing it on the big screen. Everything is so smooth, so seamless. It works on every level, emotional, humorous, family, cultural. It's a marvel of storytelling. I would strongly recommend this movie to absolutely anyone. It's one of my favorite movies of the decade.