Calorie (film)

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Calorie
Directed by Eisha Marjara
Written byEisha Marjara
Produced by Joe Balass
Starring Ellora Patnaik
Anupam Kher
Dolly Ahluwalia
CinematographyMarc Simpson-Threlford
Christophe Dalpé
Edited byPaul Chotel
Music byGaëtan Gravel
Production
company
Compass Productions
Distributed byFilmoption International
Release date
  • September 21, 2025 (2025-09-21)(CIFF)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
Punjabi

Calorie is a Canadian drama film, directed by Eisha Marjara and released in 2025. [1] The film stars Ellora Patnaik as Monika, the single mother of a Sikh Canadian family who sends her two daughters Alia (Shanaya Dhillon-Birmhan) and Simi (Ashley Ganger) on a trip to India to visit family and reconnect with their Punjabi heritage, only for the girls to learn the secret their mother had always shielded them from, that their grandmother had been killed in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. [2]

The cast also includes Anupam Kher and Dolly Ahluwalia as Mohan and Gurdeep, the great-uncle and great-aunt who host the girls on the trip, as well as Sana Syed, Puja Uppal, Usha Uppal and Peter Miller in supporting roles.

Production on the film began in fall 2022 in Montreal, [3] with further shooting in India later in the fall and winter.

The film premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival on September 21, 2025, [4] and was screened in November at the 56th International Film Festival of India, prior to its commercial release on November 28. [2]

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