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Melanie Chandra and Surina Jindal star in the first Diwali holiday movie – Hot Mess Holiday and strike a first with South Asian actors and an Indian festival theme on Comedy Central
The 800 lb gorilla in America is still the issue of immigration and affects so many lives. Be it the construction of the border wall, detention centers, the elimination of chain migration and the visa lottery and the limbo lives of so many green card hopefuls – most of them Indian and the possibility they may still be waiting 50 years later.
Yet as South Asians turn to political activism and support civic organisations that fight for immigrant rights and human rights in America, we see some famous names in the arts taking on these issues on television and on the big screen.
An all-Indian cast heads the animated film ‘Mira, Royal Detective’ – a great way for young Indian-Americans to see people like themselves on the big Hollywood screen.
Can this be true? Kal Penn, who had changed his name back to the original Kalpen Modi, and serves in the Obama Administration as the Associate Director of Public Engagement, is leaving the White House to make yet another Harold and Kumar movie.
Can two Asian actors – one an Indian and the other a Korean – be regarded as All-American? And can Hollywood actually make a comedy with them in the lead?
They can – and it did.