ABCD
The title stands for "American Born Confused Desi" (pronounced "Deshi" in the film. The confusion refers to the clash of cultural identities and Desi to a person of South Asian descent. Variations on the term extend the acronym to all letters of the alphabet, from A to Z.,References Saturday Night Fever (1977),ok. first of all, yes, the movie is called "ABCD (american born confused desi), AND, they are not born here. oh well. The girl's character is quite odd: she is overly stubborn and slutty, but at the same time she is nice to this FOB that comes over to the US. I guess the director wanted to show how she actually had the ability to be compassionate within her, but im not sure. HOWEVER, this movie is WORTH seeing!! It raises some issues that my generation has become all too familiar with and almost annoyed with trying to explain to everyone. You can only take the whole "oh, im indian, but im also american" mantra so far before people will get annoyed. american desi, ABCD, and american chai, all deal with the issue of parents wanting us to be indian, and kids wanting to do "american" things, or marry white people, or ignore indian culture, whatever. this movie is worth seeing and then talking about to see what issues indian kids born in the US have to deal with.,