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American Desi

American Desi

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American Desi

2001

1h 40m

5.9(10 votes)

Comedy

Romance

Drama

Overview

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.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Kal Penn

Kal Penn

Ajay Pandya

Purva Bedi

Purva Bedi

Nina Shah

Deep Katdare

Krishnagopal "Kris" Reddy

Ronobir Lahiri

Ronobir Lahiri

Jagjit Singh

Rizwan Manji

Rizwan Manji

Salim Ali Khan

Anil Kumar

Anil Kumar

Rakesh Patel

Sunita Param

Sunita Param

Farah Saeed

Aladdin Ullah

Gautam Rao

Eric Axen

Eric Axen

Eric Berger

Sanjit De Silva

Sanjit De Silva

Chandu

Creative team

Directed by: Piyush Dinker Pandya
Written by: Piyush Dinker Pandya
Produced by: Cyrus E. Koewing
Deep Katdare

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