Shonali Bose wrote and directed "Margarita, With a Straw" and the movie's lead character, Laila, is essentially Bose herself at age 19: ambitious, assertive, multinational, bisexual. It didn't start out that way, however. When Bose first conceived of the story, Laila was her cousin. "I have a cousin...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM on November 2, 2015