Axone

In Delhi, friends from Northeast India prepare a pungent delicacy for a wedding party, sparking conflict and comedy with their unaccustomed neighbors. Follows a group of girlfriends from Nagaland and Manipur, north-eastern states in India, gathering in the back streets of Delhi to throw a secret wedding party for a soon-to-be bride. Terrorised by their rottweiler of a landlady and with their boyfriends utterly useless as help, the group's already-disorganized plans soon go further awry. As the women cook the traditional Axone wedding stew (a pork stew with pungent local herbs), neighbors complain about its powerful smell. However, they are determined to prepare the aromatic dish. With the challenges brought on by cultural difference and the pressures of being migrants in a seemingly unfriendly city, are food and love enough to save the day? —London Film Festival On a hot summer day in Delhi, the plans of two young girls to cook a special pork dish for their best friend's wedding are foiled. Their neighbors are adamantly against it because the dish smells. As they try out various ways to cook, this bittersweet comedy wafts through the pungent smells of racism in the metropolis. —Yoodlee Films Chanbi and Upasna want to prepare a special North-Eastern Dish, Axone Pork, for their best friend Minam's wedding. The ingredients are bought, the stove is alight, the gang has gathered. There is just one glitch: they all live in New Delhi now, and not Norteast India. And for people here, the dish emits a strong aroma that seems to emanate not so much from a kitchen as from a....lavatory. The gang fears that the dish's pungent odor will invite their neighbors' and landlord's wrath. Comedic chaos ensues and unexpected obstacles arise as they struggle to find a safe place where they can prepare the dish in peace. The film explores the travails of this group of young friends as they grapple with outright racism and the upheavals of their interpersonal relationships throughout the course of one eventful day.