Is Hollywood Down with Brown?

After seeing the news about Lilly Singh getting her own NBC late night show and Mindy Kaling and Priyanka Chopra working together on a new film in the same week, we thought we would dig into how South Asian representation has evolved over the years, how much race and ethnicity should factor into a conversation about representation, whether South Asians in their home countries should care about how they are represented in Hollywood, and more! This is by no means the definitive conversation on the subject - but we think it's a good start. Things we discuss: brownhistory , an Instagram account (UPDATE: the student Nikhil mentions was in the US, not the UK!) Lilly Singh's announcement on Jimmy Fallon (Credit: NBC) Lilly Singh's video on back to school shopping (Credit: ||Superwoman||) The Problem With Apu (Credit TruTV) The Party (Credit: MGM) Aziz Ansari Goes To India (Credit: The New York Times) Utkarsh Ambudkar's Dev Patel story (Credit: The Rick Roll Podcast) Priyanka Chopra's Quantico interview (Credit: The Today Show) Mindy Kaling's response on being a South Asian showrunner (Credit: Paley Center) Music Credits: Flying High by jantrax | Music promoted by Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License "Me In Your Life" Music By The Passion HiFi Music from "River Fire" by Kevin MacLeod ( Licence: CC BY ( "Jalandhar" by Kevin MacLeod ( Licence: CC BY ( Our show logo and the logo for this episode was designed by @aparna_ramanujam .

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Is Hollywood Down with Brown? is an episode from Creating Life by Creating Life.

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This episode was published on Apr 19, 2019.

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