It’s just that we’re not getting to see that in mainstream media. It doesn’t mean, of course, that South Asian women – women of color of all different backgrounds – aren’t just beautiful. But when I saw Hermione walking down the stairs to the Yule Ball with her awesome pink dress, I wanted to have that moment. I don’t think I realize how much that impacted me as a kid. When Harry and Ron ditch the Patil twins (at the Yule Ball), I was so sad. The Patil twins were obviously done so dirty. If they were of color, they were very rarely a South Asian girlie. The female hero was always typically White. What would a show like “Never Have I Ever” have meant for you growing up?įor so long, all the pretty girls (onscreen) were all the White girls. We rarely see a female character do that. Kamala is going through a whole story arc about her not being okay with arranged marriage. Her mom Nalini is processing the loss of the love of her life as a single mom. Just touching on Season 1 topics, Devi is in therapy, Devi’s going through grief. The fact that Nalini is down to get her daughter into therapy is amazing. That’s not even touched at the dinner table, let alone on TV. What made “Never Have I Ever” so radical to you?
The bar was really low and let’s be honest, it’s not that high still. Unfortunately, people are so starved for representation. But I always knew that the show would be a hit merely just for the fact that we haven’t seen anything like that. I haven’t seen a show like this that featured a brown girl that touched on the topics that it did – and definitely not on a mainstream platform like Netflix. In the ways that I did know this was rare is in being an audience member. Kulkarni) first days on set, he said, “Oh my god, I’ve never been on a set with this many brown people.” Then I realized this is my normal, but that hasn’t been the normal. On one of Utkarsh’s (Ambudkar, who plays Devi’s teacher Mr. She gave it to me too nice.ĭid you realize how rare that was when you first took on the role? Being able to play a brown girl as my first role is just the cherry on top. That as an actor, in general, is the dream: Being able to play a character that you can sink your teeth into. We get to see her be a fully formed human being.
Poorna Jagannathan, Richa Moorjani, Jaren Lewison, Darren Barnet, Lee Rodriguez and Ramona Young also star.She’s a young woman who is both smart but also bold and loud and goes through so many character arcs, has so many different relationships in her life. Season two of “Never Have I Ever,” which premiered on July 15, saw Devi continuing to deal with the everyday pressures of high school and drama at home, while also navigating new romantic relationships. He later earned a certificate in film cinema and video studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before that he worked as a research assistant University of Texas, from where he graduated with a B.S. He was also part of the healthcare PEFA group at Berkeley Research Group, where he worked on a variety of projects both within and related to healthcare private equity. Pisharody is the co-founder of Black Velvet Films,” a full-service production company aimed at creating compelling narrative projects in the feature sphere,” according to his LinkedIn profile.
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She’s an overachieving high school sophomore with a short fuse that gets her into difficult situations.ĭeadline reported that Pisharody will play Des, “an Indian American teen who’s as smart as Devi but goes to an elite private school.” He is currently recurring as firefighter Ravi Panikkar on Fox’s “9-1-1.” He’s also appeared in series like “The Goldbergs,” “Last Man Standing,” and “SEAL Team.” The coming-of-age series centers on the complicated life of Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl.
Indian American actor and producer Anirudh “Andy” Pisharody has been tapped for a recurring role in the third season of Never Have I Ever.” The Netflix series created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher is currently in production in Los Angeles.
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