In this light-hearted and oftentimes silly cross-cultural comedy, Ramu grows up in India where his family and peers are enthralled with Bollywood musicals. He'd rather watch Grease in another part of the moviehouse. In his twenties, Ramu (Jimi Mistry) is an attractive and very popular dance teacher who tells his middle-aged clients to "Move your feet to the beat of your heart." He plans to move his feet to America and fulfill his dream of being in the movies. In New York, he joins some friends in a crowded apartment and works as a waiter at an Indian restaurant. Hardly what he had in mind. One of his buddies says to him, "Do you know why they call it the American Dream? Because it only happens when you sleep."
But Ramu is convinced that he has it within to become as big a star as John Travolta. He really gets into trouble when he lands a role in an independent film and finds out on the set that it is a porno flick. The writer and director, Dwain (Michael McKean), admires Ramu's drive but is disappointed when he can't perform sexually with Sharrona (Heather Graham). Trying to lift his spirit, she gives him her own special brand of sexual advice laced with New Age aphorisms. He's never heard anything like it before.
Later, while working at a catered Upper East side party, Ramu must stand in for a drunken Swami, who has been hired by Chantal (Christine Baranski) for the birthday party of her spiritually active daughter Lexi (Marisa Tomei). Ramu wows the group with his song-and-dance number along with a few choice bits from Sharrona's lecture. Soon he finds himself a hot item as "The Guru of Sex," speaking here and there and giving private sessions with wealthy and bored women.
Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) has a ball directing this comedy complete with a funny set piece using Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" and a send-up of Bollywood with Ramu and Sharrona singing and dancing to "You're The One That I Want." With Lexi caught up in adoration, Ramu falls in love with Sharrona, who is playing her own con game with a firefighter she is about to marry. The comedy ends, as so many recent films have done, with some humorous reversals in the sanctuary of a church.
The DVD features two audio commentaries -- one with director Daisy von Scherler and writer Tracey Jackson, the other with actor Jimi Mistri -- as well as a Sugarbabes music video, several deleted scenes, and an animated photo gallery.
