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That Love Podcast presents: American Bollywood — Episode 1: His Name Is Miles Pires Shah
Format/Genre: A warm, cinematic coming-of-age audio rom-com and romantic audio drama about first love, impossible dreams, Bollywood dancing, friendship, family, and finding the courage to finally be seen.
Logline: When bookish high-school senior Izzy Lopez learns that Miles Pires Shah — the boy she has secretly loved for years — is leaving town in just eight weeks, she decides that confessing her feelings is far too simple and instead creates an outrageous plan to learn Bollywood dancing and win his heart before time runs out.
Izzy Lopez has been completely, inconveniently in love with Miles Pires Shah for years, but she has never found the courage to tell him. When her best friend Selena reveals that Miles’s parents have separated and he will soon be moving to Florida with his mother, Izzy suddenly has just fifty-six days to stop being the girl watching him from a distance and become someone he might finally see.
After some highly questionable reconnaissance, Izzy discovers that dancing — and Bollywood in particular — connects Miles to his mother, his childhood and a part of himself that means far more than she realised. That discovery inspires an extraordinary plan: learn Bollywood choreography, perform at the school prom and show Miles exactly how much he means to her. There is only one small complication — according to almost everyone unfortunate enough to watch her try, Izzy Lopez is catastrophically bad at dancing.
Rejected by teacher after teacher, Izzy refuses to surrender and eventually finds her way to Gloria Okafor, an experienced dance teacher who asks her a much harder question than whether she can dance: why does she want to dance at all? Izzy may not have the answer yet, but for the first time in her life she is doing something that genuinely scares her — and perhaps that is where this love story really begins.
American Bollywood Episode 1 launches a funny, heartfelt audio romance about first love, teenage courage and the ridiculous things we are sometimes willing to do for the person who makes our heart beat differently.
Starring Berr Kell and Emerson Peery
Written by Joao Nsita
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That Love Podcast presents: American Bollywood — Official Trailer
Format/Genre: A cinematic coming-of-age audio rom-com and romantic audio drama about first love, impossible dreams, Bollywood dancing, friendship, family, and finding the courage to finally be seen.
Logline: When high-school senior Izzy Lopez discovers that Miles Pires Shah — the boy she has secretly loved for years — is leaving town in just eight weeks, she creates an outrageous plan to learn Bollywood dancing, perform at prom, and make him fall in love with her before time runs out.
AMERICAN BOLLYWOOD — OFFICIAL TRAILER
His name is Miles Pires Shah.
Izzy Lopez has loved him from a distance for years, but she has never found the courage to tell him how she feels. Then everything changes when Izzy discovers that Miles is leaving town in only eight weeks, giving her fifty-six days to do something she has spent years avoiding: make sure he finally sees her.
Her solution is completely reasonable.
Learn Bollywood dancing.
Perform at the school prom.
Make Miles Pires Shah fall hopelessly in love with her.
There is just one fairly serious problem.
Izzy cannot dance.
As Izzy throws herself into an impossible eight-week challenge, she enters a world of disastrous dance lessons, unexpected friendships, family complications, romantic misunderstandings and feelings that refuse to follow her carefully constructed plan. What begins as an attempt to win one boy’s heart slowly becomes something much bigger — a journey about confidence, identity, friendship, first love and discovering that becoming worthy of someone else may matter far less than believing you were already enough.
American Bollywood is a warm, funny and emotional love story podcast filled with romantic tension, Bollywood-inspired energy, coming-of-age chaos and characters searching for the courage to tell the truth about what they really want.
Sometimes getting someone to finally see you begins with learning to see yourself.
American Bollywood begins September 7th on That Love Podcast.
Starring Berr Kell and Emerson Peery
Written by Joao Nsita
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American Bollywood streams from September 7th on That Love Podcast.
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That Love Podcast presents: American Bollywood — Official Pre-Trailer Special
Format/Genre: A cinematic romantic audio drama and coming-of-age audio rom-com about first love, impossible plans, friendship, family, and one teenager’s determination to dance her way into the heart of the boy she loves.
Logline: When bookish high-school senior Izzy Lopez discovers that Miles Pires Shah — the boy she has secretly loved for years — is leaving town in eight weeks, she creates an outrageous plan to learn Bollywood dancing, perform for him at prom, and finally make him see her before it is too late.
American Bollywood is almost here.
Izzy Lopez has spent years loving Miles Pires Shah from a safe distance, but everything changes when she learns that Miles is leaving town in just eight weeks. Faced with the terrifying possibility that he could disappear from her life without ever knowing how she feels, Izzy decides that simply telling him the truth would apparently be far too sensible.
Instead, she makes a plan: learn Bollywood dancing, perform an unforgettable routine at the school prom, and somehow convince Miles to fall in love with her.
There is only one very significant problem — Izzy cannot dance.
As she searches for a teacher willing to take on what may be an impossible challenge, Izzy begins a journey filled with disastrous dance lessons, unexpected friendships, family complications, romantic near-misses, and the growing realization that winning Miles may not be the only thing at stake.
American Bollywood is a warm, funny and emotional audio romance about chasing first love, taking terrifying chances, and discovering who you might become when you finally stop watching life from the sidelines.
This special pre-trailer gives listeners their first taste of the world of American Bollywood before the official trailer arrives on September 3.
Then, on September 7, the story begins.
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