![]() "The story is deeply personal, and therefore very much about a culture that I belong to, one that I grew up with," Shekar tells Bustle. Instead, Pallavi makes her own match with Sandeep - a man Usha cannot bring herself to trust. She attempts to play matchmaker, but fails to find someone her daughter will agree to marry. Convinced that the titular curse was inflicted upon Pallavi before she was born, superstitious Usha worries when the younger woman enters her late 20s without a husband. The story revolves around Usha's obsession with finding a mate for her Indian-American daughter. An Audible Original that runs just under two hours, the play features a full cast reading voicemails and phone calls from Usha, her daughter Pallavi, and more. Madhuri Shekar's Evil Eye audio play is an epistolary "novel" for a new medium. ![]() Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Shekar's play won the Audie Award for Best Original Work, not so casually joining a roster of 2020 winners that includes Michelle Obama's Becoming and Alix E. ![]() One of the four new films, Evil Eye, is based on Madhuri Shekar's #OwnVoices audio play of the same name. ![]() By now, you've probably seen the ads for Welcome to the Blumhouse: a slate of new October releases on Prime Video from Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions. ![]()
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