Crescent Street Films - NYC Independent Film

Jeet / Victory

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Two rival crews meet one day to settle their differences. Never would they have expected the outcome of their battle.

Based on a real life event where two groups of South Asian males, one Pakistani, the other Bengali, carried out a violent brawl on a local basketball court in Astoria, Queens. Seemingly unaware of the conflicted history between Pakistan and Bangladesh, these South Asian boys exchanged violent blows while shouting racial slurs. With blood dripping from their noses, the Pakistani boys walked off of the court.

With one last look into the furious eyes of a ten-year old boy, writer Paras H. Chaudhari walked off of the court, unaware that he and Co-Director Chrysovalantis would soon turn this disappointing sequence of events into a positive message for today's youth.