One In a Billion

One in a Billion, a comedic documentary that focuses on arranged and sub arranged marriages, revolves around a 29-year-old American-born Hindu man (Ravi Patel) who breaks up with his Christian girlfriend and allows his parents to send him around the U.S. to meet potential Hindu wives.

The film will submerge audiences in a subculture that thrives in this country.  One in a Billion is about first-generation Americans who struggle with the idea of marrying within one’s religion and culture and the pressures that first-generation Americans put on themselves to maintain that culture.

Ravi wonders about the odds:  “So, my parents, who are exuberantly in love, had a traditional Hindu arranged marriage.  Naturally, they want me to marry an Indian girl.  Let’s say I want that, too.  India has a population of more than a billion people.  Easy, right?  But I live in America, where Indians make up one percent of the general population.  My odds of finding this person are one in a hundred.  But now let’s say I want this person to be a woman (fifty percent): make that one in two hundred.  Now let’s say, I want this woman to be unmarried, and over the age of seventeen (fifty percent): one in four hundred. Now, actually, this girl is supposed to be a Hindu and her family has to originate from a specific 50-square mile radius in the State of Gujarat, India: one in two thousand.  Okay, now let’s say I have to like her, she has to like me, and we have to actually find each other … One in a Billion.”