That Love Podcast presents: American Bollywood — Episode 2

Format/Genre: A cinematic coming-of-age audio rom-com and romantic audio drama combining first love, friendship, Bollywood dance, family complications and one wonderfully impossible plan.

Logline: Determined to learn the language of dance before Miles Pires Shah disappears from her life, Izzy Lopez finally finds a teacher willing to believe in her — only to discover that chasing the boy of her dreams comes with a £2,000 price tag and the frightening possibility that Miles may finally be starting to notice her.

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Izzy Lopez returns to Gloria Okafor after being rejected by four different dance teachers, but this time she finally has an answer to Gloria’s question. She wants to dance because Miles Pires Shah finds something in movement that Izzy has never been able to express with words, and if she can learn that language, perhaps she can finally reach him. Gloria agrees to teach her, beginning what promises to be one of the most difficult dance-training relationships either of them has ever experienced.

The first lesson confirms something everybody already suspected: Izzy is spectacularly terrible. Gloria, however, believes that technique can be built around whatever spark exists inside her, and promises that if there is something there, she will find it and turn Izzy into someone capable of making Miles stop and look.

Then comes the catch. Gloria’s training requires a £2,000 deposit, leaving Izzy with an impossible financial problem, no real savings and the sudden realisation that learning to dance may require far more than determination. But just as the dream begins to feel further away, a quiet encounter at a bus stop finally gives Izzy something she has wanted for years: a genuine conversation with Miles.

For a few brief moments, Miles laughs with her, remembers her name and allows Izzy to see beneath the carefully controlled version of himself he shows everyone else. Izzy leaves believing she still has a long way to go before Miles truly sees her — unaware that a forgotten red scarf may already have given him a reason to look twice.

American Bollywood Episode 2 deepens this romantic podcast into a story about perseverance, vulnerability and those tiny moments when two people who have always existed in the same world finally begin moving toward each other.

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Starring Berr Kell and Emerson Peery

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Written by Joao Nsita