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TV Movie · Family · Music · 2021

Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother’s death, she has been her father’s emotional rock, and her life revolves around her family’s restaurant, her eclectic group of friends, and her after-school coding club. Everything changes when she falls for aspiring DJ Max and a long lost passion for music is reignited. Rhea discovers that she has a natural gift for creating beats and producing music that blends her Indian heritage, but must find the courage to follow her true inner talent.

Movie details

Spin

“Music is everything.”

2021 TV Movie · Family · Music 1h 33m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

7.0 / 10

Community rating

Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother’s death, she has been her father’s emotional rock, and her life revolves around her family’s restaurant, her eclectic group of friends, and her after-school coding club. Everything changes when she falls for aspiring DJ Max and a long lost passion for music is reignited. Rhea discovers that she has a natural gift for creating beats and producing music that blends her Indian heritage, but must find the courage to follow her true inner talent.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Manjari Makijany

Written by

Carley Steiner · Josh A. Cagan

Avantika

Avantika

Rhea Kumar

Abhay Deol

Abhay Deol

Arvind

Meera Syal

Meera Syal

Asha

Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop

DJ Max

Kerri Medders

Kerri Medders

Ginger

Michela Luci

Michela Luci

Debbie

Anna Cathcart

Anna Cathcart

Molly

Court is in session

Put Spin on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.