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During October, in the throes of the general election, Senator David Perdue deliberately mispronounced and mocked Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ name. This raised many eyebrows. Including members of the Asian community — particularly the South Asian community. In response to Perdue’s disrespectful behavior, South…

Atypical actor Nik Dodani and m Kamala Harris sister Maya Harris and niece Meena Harris have returned for Brown and Down: The Sequel to help motivate the South Asian community in Georgia to register and vote for the upcoming runoff elections. The video, which also features actors Kal Penn, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Manish Da…

EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris, who is Black and of South Asian descent, has made history in more ways than one as a Vice Presidential candidate. That said, Atypical star Nik Dodani rallied South Asians from film and TV for a NowThis video to celebrate Harris and to discuss the power of voting — specifically the South Asian…

Keir Gilchrist, Nik Dodani, Brigette Lundy-Paine and Amy Okuda of Netflix’s dramedy Atypical are ready to hit the polls for November 3 and they are leading the charge with two events for the election. The first of the two events have Lundy-Paine, Dodani, and Gilchrist partnering with White People 4 Black Lives, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Nik Dodani and Colton Ryan have joined the cast Universal’s Dear Evan Hansen based on the original stage musical play with music and lyrics by Academy Award-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Dodani will play Jared, Evan's enterprising family friend, and Ryan will play Connor, a troubled high school…

EXCLUSIVE: In the conversation of Asian and Asian American representation in film and TV, the South Asian community tends to be overlooked. In an effort to bolster South Asian visibility in front of and behind the camera, Reena Singh, Senior Vice President of Current Programming at Twentieth Television, and Rishi Rajan…

One of the biggest castings questions for the Murphy Brown reboot — who will play Murphy’s grown-up son Avery — has been answered. Former Limitless star Jake McDorman has been tapped for the role opposite Candice Bergen in CBS’ current-day revival of the 1988 sitcom. Nik Dodani (Atypical) also is set for a key series…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis, and Nik Dodani have enlisted in Sony’s The Maze, the psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to survive. The trio joins previously announced cast Deborah Ann Woll, Logan Miller and Taylor Russell in…

Actress Caitlin Mehner has landed a supporting role in Robin Bissell written-directed civil rights biopic The Best Of Enemies, based on the novel The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson. The film stars  Taraji P Henson as Ann Atwater, a civil rights activist who battles KKK…