Bicycle Bride (2011)

Director
Hassan Zee

Main cast
Melanie Kannokada; Shruti Tewari; Andreas Wilson

Genres


Description
Beena struggles to follow her dream of the freedom to choose her own destiny and the love of her life, but her overly dramatic and meddlesome Indian mother Billo, wants to marry her off.


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