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American 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.
Original Release
01/01/2001
US Release
01/01/2001
Cast
Name | Character |
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Purva Bedi | Nina Shah |
Ronobir Lahiri | Jagjit Singh |
Rizwan Manji | Salim Ali Khan |
Kal Penn | Ajay Pandya |
Anil Kumar | Rakesh Patel |
Sunita Param | Farah Saeed / Farah Saaed |
Alaudin Ullah | Gautam Rao |
Eric Axen | Eric Berger |
Sanjit De Silva | Chandu |
Sunil Malhotra | Hemant |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Purva Bedi | Nina Shah |
Ronobir Lahiri | Jagjit Singh |
Rizwan Manji | Salim Ali Khan |
Kal Penn | Ajay Pandya |
Anil Kumar | Rakesh Patel |
Sunita Param | Farah Saeed / Farah Saaed |
Alaudin Ullah | Gautam Rao |
Eric Axen | Eric Berger |
Sanjit De Silva | Chandu |
Sunil Malhotra | Hemant |
Ami Shukla | Priya |
Krishen Mehta | Mr. Reddy / Krishna's father |
Smita Patel | Mrs. Reddy |
Bina Sharif | Mrs. Saeed |
Tirlok Malik | Mr. Saeed |
Ravi Khanna | Mr. Singh |
Peggy Robinson | Eric's Mother |
Pradip Kothari | Mahesh Uncle |
Sarika Chawla | Neelam |
Maya Vyas | Indian Family member / Garba Dancer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Deep Katdare | Executive Producer |
Cyrus Koewing | Executive Producer |
Deep Katdare | Producer |
Sujit Chawla | Producer |
Kaushal Pandya | Producer |
Piyush Dinker Pandya | Producer |
Gitesh Pandya | Producer |
Olivier Serra | Producer |
Cyrus Koewing | Producer |
Robert Tate | Producer |