American Desi (2001) - The A.V. Club

Cast

Deep Katdare (Krishna Gopal Reddy)Ronobir Lahiri (Jagjit Singh)Purva Bedi (Nina Shah)Rizwan Manji (Salim Ali Khan)Kal Penn (Ajay Pandya)Anil Kumar (Rakesh Patel)Sunita Param (Farah Saaed)Alaudin Ullah (Gautam Rao)Eric Axen (Eric Berger)Sanjit De Silva (Chandu)Sunil Malhotra (Hemant)Ami Shukla (Priya)Krishen Mehta (Krishna's father)Smita Patel (Mrs. Reddy)Bina Sharif (Mrs. Saeed)Tirlok Malik (Mr. Saeed)Ravi Khanna (Mr. Singh)Peggy Robinson (Eric's Mother)

Director

Piyush Dinker Pandya

Synopsis

College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates. Through his new experiences, he struggles to understand the side of himself he has always turned his back on in order to fit in.