Archives for the ‘South Asian Actors’ Category

Ang Lee on Life Of Pi

By • Nov 20th, 2012 • Category: Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, India, People, South Asian Actors
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Academy award winner Ang Lee talks about his new film Life of Pi that is based on a novel by  best selling author Yann Martel. This is Lee’s first major foray into 3D filmmaking. The film traces a the story of Piscine Militor Patel (Pi) and a tiger called Richard Parker. Trapped in a small white [...]



Shenaz Treasurywala on Delhi Belly & One Life To Live

By • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Bollywood, Entertainment, Featured, New York, People, South Asian Actors, Video
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Meet Shenaz Treasurywala, who started her career as a VJ on MTV India and made her debut in Indian cinema. In this interview Shenaz talks about working in Aamir Khan’s new Bollywood film Delhi Belly and how she landed the role. She also talks about her foray into American soap opera ABC’s One Life to [...]



In Conversation With Actor Rizwan Manji

By • May 12th, 2011 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Los Angeles, People, South Asian Actors
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Rizwan Manji’s dream growing up in Canada was to be in an American sitcom. That dream came true. After studying at American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York  he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. H has appeared on TV shows like  ”24″, “Glee,” “Hannah Montana” and now NBC’s “Outsourced,” where [...]



In Conversation with Parvesh Cheena aka Gupta

By • May 12th, 2011 • Category: Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, India, Los Angeles, People, South Asian Actors, Video
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Meet Parvesh Cheena, who plays the socially awkward man-child Gupta in NBC’s Outsourced that debuted in 2010. Outsourced is a show based on workplace except this one is a call center for an American company in Mumbai, India. Outsourced is the first TV show that is about the South Asian community and features a large [...]