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Piyush Dinker Pandya (written by)
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28 September 2001 (UK)
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College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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100 min
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Young Americans
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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).