Comments on: Yes, Maulik can do the accent

By: Pawar

Pawar — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:37:25 +0000

PREITY ZINTA ON SEX, VIRGINITY ETC http://www.the-nri.com/index.php/2011/09/sex-and-kissing-bollywood-movies/

By: patel

patel — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:08:03 +0000

So exciting to hear someone talk about not fitting into our standard conception of an indian identity. I don't really see this as a story of him turning his back on his community, just finding a different path to making meaning of his identity. Too often we internalize what the media, model minority and our skewed perception of what really being "indian" or "south asian" means.

Love his authenticity.

By: dhruva

dhruva — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:57:41 +0000

This is exactly what the protagonist in Shades of Ray faced at auditions- glad to know that the movie was based in reality.

By: Malik

Malik — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:24:15 +0000

Is Maulik Pancholy actually gay or are people just assuming this because he plays a gay character in a television program? I looked up the issue by google search and didn’t find any evidence of him actually being gay.

By: SaheliDatta

SaheliDatta — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:48:47 +0000

I started watching Weeds recently, and am in the middle of season 4. The character of Sanjay is great—-there were really only 2.5 gags that revolved around him being Indian, only 1 of which bothered me. The other 1.5 were hlarious. While the gags that revolve around him being gay are a little too thick for my taste (I just find it a little dumb when the whole punchline of a joke is This Character is Gay!) most of the gags center around him being him–a goofy, alternatingly terrified and impulsively brash kid who’s simultaneously afraid of getting into trouble and thrilled by it and basically can’t make up his mind which emotion to give in to. And the show’s treatment of him and all the various characters of color feels a lot more fair and evenhanded than most , b/c the Botwins’ and Hoades’s whiteness and privilege is constantly being probed and picked at and held up for display, unlike most shows where whiteness is invisible.

By: delurker

delurker — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:15:47 +0000

"Why is his being gay the next thing we need to figure out?"

For rishta purposes, obvs.

By: delurker

delurker — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:13:59 +0000

I had never heard of him until someone told me earlier this week that I looked like “Jonathan from 30 Rock.” I don’t see it, but if gals and gay guys find him attractive, I now accept that I am his doppelganger.

By: Amrita

Amrita — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:30:33 +0000

Why is his being gay the next thing we need to figure out? We all know how annoying it is when people you thought you knew dial you back to where they think you belong, viz., if I show an interest in cultural events that belong to traditions other than what these people think are my own, someone will point out a forthcoming tabla performance to make sure I’m pointed in the right direction.

By: Rcola

Rcola — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:01:44 +0000

Good for him — he makes sense here and is v articulate. Hope he is right about changes in the acting world.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:25:07 +0000

Yes, he’s gay, and I love that guy. He is, in fact, one of the cutest actors on TV PERIOD.