I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Ray grew up in New Jersey, but moves away to Los Angeles.Ray is engaged to Noel, and asks her to marry her. She delays giving him an answer until after she comes back from a vacation with her parents.Ray's father moves in with him, and soon talks him into having dinner with Sana and her parents. Noel calls him and says yes.Ray continues seeing Sana. Oi. Ray's mother comes out. Noel comes by when Ray is working at the bar, and the parents are both at Ray's house. Sana stops by the bar and tries to seduce Ray in the men's room. What could possibly go wrong, and could it be fixed?Cinematography: 7/10 Usually competent, but often just barely.Sound: 8/10 Occasionally badly miked.Acting: 6/10 Good except for Fran Kranz. The other actors counterbalance his badness, but he's still obnoxious.Screenplay: 7/10 Moves along logically, except for the intervals that contain Fran Kranz.

I recently had the pleasure of watching Jaffar Mahmood's movie "Shades of Ray". I was totally impressed with Jaffar's characters and the the way they all interacted with each other. I thought the dialogue was well done. You became wrapped up in Ray's life and wanted to see him through this time in his life.I really enjoyed the great comedic timing of the movie and found myself laughing more than I had in a long time.Brian George was wonderful as Ray's father.His portrayal of a Pakastani father trying to get his son to follow tradition was very touching. Ray's roommate,Fran Krantz was great.I really enjoyed his character.However I have to admit that the best part of the movie for me was Zach Levi! What a bonus for Jaffar to get him to act in this great movie. I am a big fan of Zach and I think he did a great job as Ray. I almost fell off of my chair during one of his audition scenes in the movie.I am hoping that with Zach's success in Chuck that someone will jump at the chance to distribute Jaffar's movie. I have one comment to make about the one and only bad review that the movie received- did that person see the same movie that I did? I did not want the movie to end and look forward to when I can see it again!I would recommend this movie to everyone. I look forward to future movies from Jaffar.

Brilliant exploration of identity conflicts of new generation Americans of mixed ethnicity; Perfectly portrayed by Zachary Levi as son of a Pakistani immigrant father and Caucasian catholic American mother; Timely, since our president-elect Barack Obama (product of mixed ethnicity) went through identity crisis in his early life; Insightful in portraying struggles of first generation immigrants - in this case, a Pakistani father (masterfully played by Brian George) who after 35 years of blissful living in America is still struggling with his early values.Jaffar Mahmood as writer/director has done an excellent job in casting where all the characters are able to convey the multitude of human emotions - Love, joy, desires, hopes, conflicts- in such an effortless manner as if they are really living through it all. Congratulations Jaffar for being able to achieve this caliber of movie as your first venture on shoestring budget. I hope some insightful distributor will have the "audacity" of showing this movie to American audience at large.

It is easy to take any one of several cultural and other issues being faced by the immigrant community, and make out of it a sensitive, lofty and possibly heart-wrenching movie. It is extremely difficult to take such an issue and present it in such a delightfully palatable package. This movie, unlike many first-time entrants, would actually hold its own in a general audience. There are several social issues faced by the professional, well-educated, well-to-do immigrant, which transcend those of the existential type encountered by many of the less-fortunate immigrants in the sense that the latter is really not concerned about conformance or non-conformance, and/or "fitting in" because he is more concerned with economical survival. The other variety, already at ease with the Western culture, finds, in further embracing it, that a price is to be extracted when the next generation, brought up in the new culture, manifests that particular aspect of the American culture that truly epitomizes it: the right to question his or her parents. Let there be no doubt about it, the uniquely distinguishing aspect of the Indo-Pak cultural baggage that is carried in by the first generation immigrant is the primacy of the "Elder", regardless of merit. It is a challenge indeed.