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American Desi is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 1 january 2001 with Deep Katdare
American Desi (2001)
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Add to a movie listAmerican Desi is a 2001 American film with Indian influence, notable for featuring many prominent South Asian American actors. Also featured is an a cappella version of Nazia Hassan's Urdu classic "Aap Jaisa Koi", sung by Penn Masala and originally from the movie Qurbani. The term Desi in the title refers to the peoples and cultures of the Indian subcontinent.
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An American-raised Indian, Krishnagopal Reddy (or "Kris" as he prefers to be called, to distance himself from his heritage) finds out to his dismay that his University of Pennsylvania roommates are all Indian. He does not associate with the Indian culture that his parents and family have pushed upon him and prefers to be as American as possible. His roommates include Ajay (Kal Penn), an African-American idolizing desi; Jagjit, who loves art but studies engineering to please his father; and Salim, who is very traditional and conservative, feeling that Indian-American girls are too Westernized to make good wives.Actors
Deep Katdare
(Krishnagopal "Kris" Reddy)
Rizwan Manji
(Salim Ali Khan)
Purva Bedi
(Nina Shah)
Kal Penn
(Ajay Pandya)
Sanjit De Silva
(Chandu)
Vaishali Desai
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