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Writer:
Piyush Dinker Pandya (written by)
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Release Date:
28 September 2001 (UK) more
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College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Deep Katdare ... Krishna Gopal Reddy / Kris

Purva Bedi ... Nina Shah

Ronobir Lahiri ... Jagjit Singh
Rizwan Manji ... Salim Ali Khan

Kal Penn ... Ajay Pandya

Anil Kumar ... Rakesh Patel

Sunita Param ... Farah Saaed
Aladdin Ullah ... Gautam Rao (as Aladdin)

Eric Axen ... Eric Berger

Sanjit De Silva ... Chandu (as Sanjit Desilva)

Sunil Malhotra ... Hemant

Ami Shukla ... Priya
Krishen Mehta ... Krishna's father (as Krishan Mehta)
Smita Patel ... Mrs. Reddy
Bina Sharif ... Mrs. Saeed
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
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Ajay: What happened? This place looks worse than South Central. more
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References Taal (1999) more
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Young Americans more

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Enjoyable for Everyone, 9 August 2004
Author: todd-blair from California

I agree with the first poster that this is a good movie but don't think you need to have any particular background to enjoy it. I'm sure there were a number of inside jokes that were over my head (in a number of cases I knew while I was watching that it was something I just didn't have a reference for) but that didn't take away much from the experience for me. I enjoyed this as a romantic comedy and I thought it was a good treatment of the different ways a group of young people struggled with identity, cultural heritage, and social mores handed down from family. I thought the filmmakers did a nice job of creating a story that is accessible for all (and maybe particularly funny for those who can relate on a personal level).

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