Hank Azaria Wants to 'Personally Apologize' to Every Indian Person for Voicing Apu on 'The Simpsons'

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“There hasn’t really been a show like this, particularly involving South Asian or Indian culture, so it was difficult,” Indian Matchmaking creator/executive producer Smriti Mundhra said during Deadline’s Contender Television: Documentary + Unscripted award-season event about the daring Netflix series.

Bend It Like Beckham and ER, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the opportunity was turned down because the show “already had an Indian person” cast.She also told the Celebrity Catch Up podcast while promoting her new sci-fi series Intergalactic that she heard producers on the unnamed production say that “too many brown people” would not sell.While she acknowledged that diversity in casting is improving (“we’re having the conversations happening more and more and things have moved on”) she added that

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Actress Parminder Nagra has said she was once turned down for a TV role because the show had "already got an Indian person on the cast". The British star, who rose to fame in Bend It Like Beckham in 2002 before going on to appear in medical drama ER and other shows in the US, said the same thing would never be said about a white person.

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coronavirus variant first detected in India has left scientists "worried". Dozens of cases of the Indian variant have been detected in the UK, with four found in Scotland among a total of 103 across the nation.

faced a reckoning over the diversity of its characters. The re-casting started with Azaria’s Apu, which the white actor agreed perpetuated harmful stereotypes about Indian Americans.“Tonight I make my debut on The Simpsons as gay, Cuban Julio,” Rodriguez, a longtime performer with the Upright Citizens Brigade, wrote on Instagram last month.

Gurpreet Singh Johal is calling on Boris Johnson to raise the case of his 34-year-old brother, known as Jaggi, during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Nahrendra Modi this month.The former Our Lady and St Patrick’s pupil has been imprisoned in India since November 2017 – three weeks after travelling to the country for his wedding.The Sikh human rights activist says he has been tortured in custody, over alleged involvement in the killings of right-wing Hindu leaders and the funding of a

Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai, the Hindi-language action pic starring Salman Khan, is holding to its Eid release on May 13 but is moving to a day-and-date strategy with many Indian cinemas closed due to the coronavirus wave currently sweeping the country.

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coronavirus first identified in India is likely to become a “variant of concern”, an immunology expert has warned on Good Morning Britain. Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, appeared on the ITV show on Monday as he discussed the new strain after dozens of cases were found in the UK.

EXCLUSIVE: Vidyut Jammwal’s rise to fame has been a remarkably rapid one. He only made his screen debut in 2011, taking largely glorified extra or stuntman roles in films as he sought his break. “I wasn’t the bad guy, I was the guy next to the bad guy,” as he puts it. Flash forward ten years and Jammwal’s star has risen through roles in movies including the Commando series and Junglee to make him one of the Indian biz’s most appreciated action stars.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSTXfilms has nabbed rights to “Universe’s Most Wanted,” a sci-fi fantasy adventure starring Dave Bautista.It will release the film in the United States, the United Kingdom and India. STX acquired “Universe’s Most Wanted” from AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance.“Universe’s Most Wanted” is currently in pre-production and is scheduled to begin shooting in Melbourne, Australia in late July.

Eros STX has taken United States, UK and India rights to AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance’s Universe’s Most Wanted. The picture puts Eros STX back in business with their My Spy star Dave Bautista, a title which was sold to Amazon Prime during the pandemic and did such notable business, that a sequel is already in the works on that pic as we first reported.

Lee Aaker, best known as the 1950s child star of The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin, has died at 77. The news comes via a social media post by former child actor and activist Paul Petersen. Petersen said Aaker “passed away in Arizona on April 1st, alone & unclaimed, listed as an ‘indigent decedent.'”