representation: Staring a 17 year old Indian boy !!

 My friend Mehul is going  be the star of my film opening. I decided to choose him to be the main character in my film for 2 reasons. First reason , because he's one of the funniest kid I've ever met at my time in high school. And he's a minority, which I thought i could do a lot of research on his type of ethnicity for representation.

Utkarsh Ambudkar, an Indian American actor who plays Malcolm on Showtime’s White Famous and Mindy’s brother Rishi on The Mindy Project said South Asian artists approach roles in the industry has changed. “When I started working professionally, if there was a role that came out, everyone who was brown would go out for the role, whether it was right or not." These are some of the ways South Asian's would get into the film industry. These type of minorities didn't waste any opportunities.

There is very little data on the number of South Asians in Hollywood or the entertainment industry today, and even less from past decades. A UCLA report published earlier this year said Asians made up a measly 3.1 percent of all top film roles in 2016, despite making up around 6 percent of the US population.

The South Asian trajectory in US entertainment has lagged behind other minority groups. Aseem Chhabra, an entertainment writer, told me over the phone that The Jeffersons and the Cosby Show marked a kind of silver screen revolution for African Americans in the late 1970s and 80s.   



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