ISTIKHAARA, NEW YORK features Reza, an artist and Brooklyn transplant, Babbu, a recent immigrant and revolutionary from Delhi, and Rahul, an aspiring Imam and crony capitalist, finding themselves in an America where they are ever the more important but feeling even more looked over. With his dreams of becoming a Broadway actor falling further out of reach and a pay cut threatening to displace him, Reza, a young Muslim food delivery courier, must look within his community and ultimately himself, to find some stability to rebuild his purpose for being in New York City.