Never Have I Ever, as a show, has deeply divided South Asian audiences in its portrayal of an Indian transplant family in California, with the kids striving for western modernity and the elders clutching tightly on to traditions. Moorjani, 32, recalls being nervous about how the virtual reads would “kill the creative process and wouldn’t be that funny”, but then …
“It never set out to be the definitive version of the South Asian experience. But imagine the pleasure of having the opportunity to say, ‘hey they didn’t quite get me right’,” say Poorna Jagannathan and Richa Moorjani Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s coming-of-age comedy-drama was about a teenager navigating first crushes, a disciplinarian mother, crumbling friendships …
With season two of Never Have I Ever streaming on Netflix from July 16, The Hindu Weekend interviews actors Richa Moorjani and Poorna Jagannathan who respectively play Kamala Nandiawada and Dr Nalini Vishwakumar. The series that debuted in April 2020, narrated by John McEnroe, follows Devi Vishwakumar, a straight-A student at a Sherman Oaks high school in California. Devi’s father …
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