How Do You Fall Out of Love with Country Music?

Directed by Shyamala Moorty

She just wants to sing country and western on stage, but it’s not easy for a South Asian-American in the deep south where every audience is a hostile one.

Winner of multiple awards, “How Do You Fall Out of Love with County Music” is a humorous and moving short film about cultural alienation and the possibilities for human connection through music.  Set on stage in a honky-tonk bar, Amy Singh courageously challenges the audience and reveals deep truths about racism and belonging in our country today. 

“Amy Singh lays it all on the line – her heart, her career, maybe even her life – in this deeply felt monologue that shows a character punching through the paper-thin niceties that separate performer and audience.”

– writer, the New Play Exchange

  “This is so damn good. I’m Kentucky-born and -raised, now living in New York City, and while my demographics don’t match those of the terrific character of Amy Singh, my god how her perspective resonates. The push and pull of loving something that comes bundled with so much you deplore; of art that speaks to you, but springs from a culture that despises you; the weary toll of loving something that doesn’t love you back…Gill captures it here in a bravura act of courage, intelligence, humor, compassion, and longing. ”

– writer, the New Play Exchange

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