The Last Resort
In the first-ever Indian retirement complex in the U.S, a tight-knit group of Indian immigrants forge a resilient community, navigating family tensions, cultural longing and the realities of growing old together.
About the film
The Last Resort follows the intertwined lives of residents at Shanti Niketan, the first Indian-American retirement community in the United States, where a generation of immigrants is entering a new stage of life. Many arrived in the 1960s and 70s, building careers, raising families, and creating lives that bridged continents. Now, they navigate the slower pace of aging, the challenges of illness and loss, and shifting relationships with their adult children—while quietly asking what “home” means at this stage in life. Blending Indian traditions with American life, they laugh, debate, reminisce, and rely on each other – shaping a vision of aging that is both deeply rooted in culture and the place they now call home.
Winner of the "Excellence in Documentary" award at the International South Asian Film Festival
Credits
Director
Sarita Khurana
Producer
Prerana Thakurdesai
Executive Producers
Geeta Gandbhir, Sarita Khurana
Editors
Melissa Thompson, Flávia de Souza
Director of Photography
Azad
Sound
Jack Neu
Consulting Producer
Jaret Vadera
Graphics Designer
Landon Maloney
Color Grading
Ranju Majumdar
Sound Mixing
William Hsieh
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Screenings and Impact
The Last Resort aims to reach a multigenerational audience within the South Asian American community, particularly immigrant elders and their adult children. These two groups, while deeply connected by family bonds, often struggle to communicate about aging, caregiving, and end-of-life planning due to cultural taboos and shifting generational expectations. At the same time the senior population in the U.S. is growing rapidly, with one in five residents projected to be over 65 by 2030. The elderly population is also becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. Our film intends to builds on the legacy of AAPI movement work by addressing an urgent, yet underrepresented issue: how immigrant elders age in America.
Get in touch with us if you'd like to host a screening of the film in your community, universities, institutions, organizations, companies or libraries. We are currently developing a discussion guide that will help facilitate conversations around aging and caregiving.
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