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22 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011

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From Page 15 “You know ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’? It’s kind of like the Indian version of that,� he said. Beau Peregino of Harford County, Md., didn’t know Krishna before she cast him as James, but the 30-year-old feels the part was written for him. “This is literally what I went through all last year,� he said, referring to his relationship with an Indian woman who ultimately chose a man with a pedigree her parents respected. “When I read the script, I said, ‘Well, this isn’t going to be much acting. It’s just going to be me re-living all of last year.’� For Krishna, who was born in Georgetown and now lives in Arlington, the plot isn’t far-fetched. “It’s not autobiographical in the sense that that never happened to me,� she said. “But I do get the pressure. I’m 34 and single, so I get the pressure of marriage constantly, everywhere I am. And at one point a couple years ago, my mom asked if I wanted her to set

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me up.â€? “In my head, it was kind of a what-if scenario: What if this was to happen?â€? Krishna said. The movie is the culmination of an idea that started as one of two theses she wrote at American. She hopes it gets people talking — about love, family and traditional versus modern expectations. “The pressure you get from your family is not unique to Indian culture,â€? said Krishna. “I tried to make the theme universal enough that even if people can’t relate to the arranged marriage thing ‌ people could relate to the backup plan.â€? Krishna, who puts her other two master’s degrees to use as a senior consultant at Deloitte when she’s not composing scripts, has written 10 short films and is working on her third feature, but she hopes “Arrange to Settleâ€? will be her big break. “This is my starting point and this is my resume-builder and this is my first film to prove my track record,â€? she said. For more information, visit arrangetosettle.com.

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VIDEO From Page 15 the neighborhood’s Safeway. The blue box that can be seen from Potomac Video’s windows doesn’t trouble McNevin: “I’ve never seen anyone use it,â€? he said. And the heightened competition hasn’t soured Potomac Video employees on introducing their customers to films they may not otherwise see. In fact, McNevin considers that feature the store’s main advantage over the digital databases that provide streaming movies. If customers don’t know precisely what they want, digital databases can be overwhelming, he said. Brick-and-mortar stores offer expert staff and a deep, but comfortingly finite collection that customers can browse. And that selection can be tailored to niche preferences: Palisades customers, for example, seem to like British films, according to McNevin. Now, an outsize amount of floor space is devoted to those movies. “We’re like the Politics and Prose of video stores,â€? McNevin said, comparing the chain to the local bookstore that has outlasted many of its national competitors. The video store’s Connecticut Avenue location has a particularly deep bench of films that are hard to find, even on digital databases, said Fogle. “Even now it has the best collection of foreign films, documentaries, things you can’t typically find. ‌ It’s really an outstanding collection,â€? he said. But in the face of dwindling interest in brick-and-mortar video stores, Fogle is again looking to the investment that started it all: real estate. He’s now involved in restoring a historic inn and other properties in Martinsburg, W.Va. And the entrepreneurial bug has bitten other members of the Fogle family as well. Daughter Sabina has turned a spot next to the MacArthur Boulevard shop into a small gallery for antique maps she purchases in Paris, where she is finishing a doctorate in art history. Even in her studies of French art, she said, growing up in the video business has made a difference. “I learned a lot of French though studying French cinema,â€? she said, citing Catherine Deneuve as a favorite instructor. Sabina Fogle helped orchestrate the 30th anniversary celebration at the store, and she’s hopeful that planned monthly sidewalk sales during the summer will help drum up interest and relieve the store of excess inventory. But the anniversary festivities were bittersweet as well, she said of watching neighbors line up for trendy cupcakes. “I wish people would still line up to rent movies like that,â€? she said.

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