Episode Description
That Love Podcast presents: American Bollywood — Episode 1: His Name Is Miles Pires Shah
Format/Genre: A warm, cinematic coming-of-age audio rom-com and romantic audio drama about first love, impossible dreams, Bollywood dancing, friendship, family, and finding the courage to finally be seen.
Logline: When bookish high-school senior Izzy Lopez learns that Miles Pires Shah — the boy she has secretly loved for years — is leaving town in just eight weeks, she decides that confessing her feelings is far too simple and instead creates an outrageous plan to learn Bollywood dancing and win his heart before time runs out.
Izzy Lopez has been completely, inconveniently in love with Miles Pires Shah for years, but she has never found the courage to tell him. When her best friend Selena reveals that Miles’s parents have separated and he will soon be moving to Florida with his mother, Izzy suddenly has just fifty-six days to stop being the girl watching him from a distance and become someone he might finally see.
After some highly questionable reconnaissance, Izzy discovers that dancing — and Bollywood in particular — connects Miles to his mother, his childhood and a part of himself that means far more than she realised. That discovery inspires an extraordinary plan: learn Bollywood choreography, perform at the school prom and show Miles exactly how much he means to her. There is only one small complication — according to almost everyone unfortunate enough to watch her try, Izzy Lopez is catastrophically bad at dancing.
Rejected by teacher after teacher, Izzy refuses to surrender and eventually finds her way to Gloria Okafor, an experienced dance teacher who asks her a much harder question than whether she can dance: why does she want to dance at all? Izzy may not have the answer yet, but for the first time in her life she is doing something that genuinely scares her — and perhaps that is where this love story really begins.
American Bollywood Episode 1 launches a funny, heartfelt audio romance about first love, teenage courage and the ridiculous things we are sometimes willing to do for the person who makes our heart beat differently.
Starring Berr Kell and Emerson Peery
Written by Joao Nsita
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