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Amar Wala is “shocked” by the big laughs his scripted feature debut Shook has been getting at early screenings, including its Toronto International Film Festival premiere last fall, with recurring bits about South Asian names spelled out on coffee cups tempting some to categorize it as comedy.

“We thought it was mostly a drama and it had some funny bits in it,” Wala says on a Zoom call with The Globe and Mail, the latest in a series of conversations with the filmmaker and his leads Saamer Usmani and Amy Forsyth, which began on the film’s Scarborough set two years prior.

He is

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