Comments on: Shalini is on The Lot http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: VIDUR http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-167696 VIDUR Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:58:12 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-167696 <p>LAUGH YOUR INTERNATIONAL BOOTY OFF THIS NATIONAL COMING OUT WEEK AT “LAUGHING OUT LOUD: STARRING VIDUR KAPUR� - AT NYC’s GOTHAM COMEDY CLUB, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10th @ 9:30PM</p> <p>Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 9:30PM - 11PM</p> <p>Outrageously riotous international sensation, VIdur Kapur will be cracking you up once again at Gotham Comedy Club… in a show especially created for National Coming Out Week! For details check out www.gothamcomedyclub.com</p> <p>Vidur Kapur has emerged as an increasingly popular and unique queer and Indian act in America and internationally, following his feature on MTV LOGO’s Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack with Margaret Cho and the short film about him on Steven Spielberg’s “On The Lot’ on FOX tv. Vidur was featured as a leading comedian in a Reuters Television piece shown on 500 stations around the world on "Prominent South Asians in the Media" along with internationally known celebrities such as Mira Nair, Director of Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, and Naveen Andrews of ABC's LOST.</p> <p>Vidur Kapur http://www.sonicbids.com/vidurkapur<br /> 718.789.1776 info@OUTmedia.org</p> LAUGH YOUR INTERNATIONAL BOOTY OFF THIS NATIONAL COMING OUT WEEK AT “LAUGHING OUT LOUD: STARRING VIDUR KAPUR� – AT NYC’s GOTHAM COMEDY CLUB, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10th @ 9:30PM

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 9:30PM – 11PM

Outrageously riotous international sensation, VIdur Kapur will be cracking you up once again at Gotham Comedy Club… in a show especially created for National Coming Out Week! For details check out http://www.gothamcomedyclub.com

Vidur Kapur has emerged as an increasingly popular and unique queer and Indian act in America and internationally, following his feature on MTV LOGO’s Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack with Margaret Cho and the short film about him on Steven Spielberg’s “On The Lot’ on FOX tv. Vidur was featured as a leading comedian in a Reuters Television piece shown on 500 stations around the world on “Prominent South Asians in the Media” along with internationally known celebrities such as Mira Nair, Director of Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, and Naveen Andrews of ABC’s LOST.

Vidur Kapur http://www.sonicbids.com/vidurkapur
718.789.1776 info@OUTmedia.org

]]> By: Runa http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143866 Runa Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:35:22 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143866 <h1>35 ak,</h1> <blockquote>plus, who even came up with that term - DBDs?</blockquote> <p>Please, I beg you, don't even go there ! We had a long and tortuous debate on this ( see <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004459.html">here</a> for a sample) and I for one am glad that we are using DBD and ABD :-)</p> 35 ak,
plus, who even came up with that term – DBDs?

Please, I beg you, don’t even go there ! We had a long and tortuous debate on this ( see here for a sample) and I for one am glad that we are using DBD and ABD :-)

]]> By: roots http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143835 roots Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:21:01 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143835 <p>Hey Amitabh,</p> <p>Thanks, btw I wasn't being an asshole by putting you on the spot. I feel this is the most honest answer I have heard to this question in contrast to some others on these boards.</p> Hey Amitabh,

Thanks, btw I wasn’t being an asshole by putting you on the spot. I feel this is the most honest answer I have heard to this question in contrast to some others on these boards.

]]> By: Ragini http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143793 Ragini Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:59:46 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143793 <p>Hey, in Shalini's first "On The Lot" film -- 'Love in the Yeah 2007' -- wasn't the goofy desi singing telegram dude played by that actor from the "7-11" plays, Debargo Senyal? I saw the "7-11" show here in Manhattan two years ago, and I think I spotted that actor in there...</p> Hey, in Shalini’s first “On The Lot” film — ‘Love in the Yeah 2007′ — wasn’t the goofy desi singing telegram dude played by that actor from the “7-11″ plays, Debargo Senyal? I saw the “7-11″ show here in Manhattan two years ago, and I think I spotted that actor in there…

]]> By: Amitabh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143763 Amitabh Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:03:05 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143763 <p>My <b>roots </b>are from India. Which is not to discount the huge impact and influence that growing up in America has had on my life on virtually every level. I grew up in NJ...in a way I'm <b>from </b>NJ...but my roots are not from NJ. Even though growing up in NJ may have had more of an impact on my very personality and identity than my roots in India did. But still. That's my take on it, anyway.</p> My roots are from India. Which is not to discount the huge impact and influence that growing up in America has had on my life on virtually every level. I grew up in NJ…in a way I’m from NJ…but my roots are not from NJ. Even though growing up in NJ may have had more of an impact on my very personality and identity than my roots in India did. But still. That’s my take on it, anyway.

]]> By: roots http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143716 roots Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:20:06 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143716 <p>I think the question then is of semantics, others can think of it any way they want but you and I are the only ones who know what our roots are. I used to think that discussions about roots are similar to origins which will obviously be a mixture of our ancestors and us. Off topic do you believe your roots to be in India or in America?</p> I think the question then is of semantics, others can think of it any way they want but you and I are the only ones who know what our roots are. I used to think that discussions about roots are similar to origins which will obviously be a mixture of our ancestors and us. Off topic do you believe your roots to be in India or in America?

]]> By: Amitabh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143697 Amitabh Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:32:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143697 <blockquote>Others defining it is akin to most Americans perceving second generation Indians to be foreigners when they are born and raised in America.</blockquote> <p>That's right...and they still might feel that way regardless of what we think about the subject.</p> Others defining it is akin to most Americans perceving second generation Indians to be foreigners when they are born and raised in America.

That’s right…and they still might feel that way regardless of what we think about the subject.

]]> By: roots http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143636 roots Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:33:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143636 <p>Amitabh,</p> <p>Although I understand the broad gist of your comment, I am still a little confused about other defining your roots for you. I feel it is your own process and other can not put a definition to it. Others defining it is akin to most Americans perceving second generation Indians to be foreigners when they are born and raised in America.</p> Amitabh,

Although I understand the broad gist of your comment, I am still a little confused about other defining your roots for you. I feel it is your own process and other can not put a definition to it. Others defining it is akin to most Americans perceving second generation Indians to be foreigners when they are born and raised in America.

]]> By: Amitabh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143556 Amitabh Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:58:08 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143556 <p>Ardy, 'roots' is a fairly subjective thing; it can be self-defined, and it can be defined for you by others. And I'm pretty sure the definition varies from person to person. Let's say there is a Gujarati kid raised in the US. Depending on his own intellectual processes, when he grows up he may feel that his roots are in Gujarat. Or, he may not really feel that way at all. At the same time, I may look at him and feel that his roots are in Gujarat (regardless of how he feels about it), or, I may look at him and feel his roots are NOT in Gujarat (again, regardless of how he feels about it). So there's no right or wrong answer, a lot of it boils down to opinion and perception. And it's mostly an intellectual thing that everyone figures out for themselves eventually. How<b> you</b> define roots is not necessarily how others do.</p> Ardy, ‘roots’ is a fairly subjective thing; it can be self-defined, and it can be defined for you by others. And I’m pretty sure the definition varies from person to person. Let’s say there is a Gujarati kid raised in the US. Depending on his own intellectual processes, when he grows up he may feel that his roots are in Gujarat. Or, he may not really feel that way at all. At the same time, I may look at him and feel that his roots are in Gujarat (regardless of how he feels about it), or, I may look at him and feel his roots are NOT in Gujarat (again, regardless of how he feels about it). So there’s no right or wrong answer, a lot of it boils down to opinion and perception. And it’s mostly an intellectual thing that everyone figures out for themselves eventually. How you define roots is not necessarily how others do.

]]> By: glass houses http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/06/12/shalini_is_on_t_1/comment-page-1/#comment-143532 glass houses Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:25:12 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4500#comment-143532 <p>"Also, you get a similar problem with immigrants who never go back, and are wedded to their idea of what India or "Indian culture" is. Then you tell them that things are completely different now, 20 years later, and they just refuse to believe it..."</p> <p>G-Unit this is a situation a lot of desi kids find themselves in growing up...it effectively locks them out of the american mainstream (dating, partying: pure corruption) and out of a true dialog with a rapidly changing India; forces them into marriage by age 22 and strands them ill prepared for life in the 21st century...and the irony is the parents feel that they are completely righteous in their own mis-guided ways.</p> “Also, you get a similar problem with immigrants who never go back, and are wedded to their idea of what India or “Indian culture” is. Then you tell them that things are completely different now, 20 years later, and they just refuse to believe it…”

G-Unit this is a situation a lot of desi kids find themselves in growing up…it effectively locks them out of the american mainstream (dating, partying: pure corruption) and out of a true dialog with a rapidly changing India; forces them into marriage by age 22 and strands them ill prepared for life in the 21st century…and the irony is the parents feel that they are completely righteous in their own mis-guided ways.

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