She thinks they are only asking because both are Indian immigrants but it’s because both used to be best friends. There was a third, but he died under mysterious circumstances as witnessed in the film’s opening scene.Įveryone keeps asking Sam if Tamira is okay which is beginning to annoy her.
The former friends seem to be the only two Indian students in the high school.
Back at school, the teen would rather hang with her white classmates than her former best friend Tamira (Mohana Krishnan) who has been acting strange lately Think of her as the Emo version of “basket case” Allison in “The Breakfast Club” except instead of a Cap’n Crunch and Pixie Stix sandwich she carries raw meat that she feeds a demon trapped in a Mason jar. There’s no trace of an accent in Sam’s voice as she communicates in English with her Hindi-speaking mother Poorna (Neeru Bajwa).
