7 Days: Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, Roshan Sethi (Tribeca Film Festival 2021)
27Roshan Sethi, who co-created Fox's medical drama The Resident, finished his own residency last June, and since his job as an attending physician didn't start until November, he took advantage of the gap in his schedule and set out to write a script in the middle of the pandemic with his partner, Karan Soni, who plays Dopinder in the Deadpool movies. The resulting movie, 7 Days, is a romantic comedy that pairs Soni with Australian actress Geraldine Viswanathan (Bad Education) and makes its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend.
Soni and Viswanathan play a couple of Indian-Americans whose old-fashioned parents are trying to set each of them up in an arranged marriage -- an idea that he's very much open to, and to which she is decidedly not. When the pandemic breaks out, they find themselves trapped together by the circumstances of quarantine. The film explores ideas of loneliness and connection, which millions of people experienced and yearned for during the pandemic, so although the idea of arranged marriage is specific to certain cultures, the themes explored in 7 Days are fairly universal.
The first draft poured out Sethi and Soni, who completed the script in less than a week. With the help of the Duplass brothers, they were on set shooting the movie just two months later. After a hectic eight days of filming that saw them shooting up to 17 pages a day, their dream had finally become a reality.
"Roshan and I are in a relationship and we were talking about how in the middle of this time last year, we were creatively feeling sort of depressed. So Roshan had the idea -- 'what if we just wrote our own thing and put in some of our own money and just made something, so we didn't feel creatively adrift?' So we very quickly came up with this idea and wrote this in five days, in a fever dream, because we had nothing else to do," explained Soni.
"We sent it out to a few line producers that we knew, just to get an idea of like, what this would cost, and then just as a hail mary we sent it to the Duplass brothers. We were like, 'they'll never read it,' but I had worked with them a bunch so I was like, 'well, let me just send it out.' And yeah, within a week or so, they read it and said, 'we want to make this. How soon can you make it?' And then before we knew it, we were rushing into making a movie, which was amazing. It pretty much sustained us during this whole period, creatively, because we were working on the post-production and all that stuff, so it's been a huge gift to get to work on this."
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