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"Thanks, however, to some strong performances, the play takes hold with an authority that you don't quite anticipate. Sunita Param, for example, is a find as Sylvia Morgan, an Indian woman with a Welsh father who joins the troupe as a means of escape to the West; she embodies the array of qualities -- charm, ambition, a thick skin -- that you sense that someone would need to survive the wounding, unconscious racism of the Anglo culture in which she so desperately wants to be absorbed."
"Mr. Cohn is joined by a gifted cast including Sunita Param as his love interest Sylvia, and Michael Tolaydo as the treacherous Reg Drummond..."
"Overall American Desi is a near perfect film... Sunita Param as Farah Saeed is very good. Her portrayal is the one that most NRI females will be able to identify with. While Salim thinks that she is the corrupt NRI girl she proves him wrong. Her acting is very realistic, and it shows that NRI girls may speak English and be more Liberal, but that does not mean that they do not know what their heritage and culture is all about..."
For the uninformed, she's New York-based cabaret singer Sunita Param. For others, she's the new face in the comedy American Desi, opening in 40 theatres across the US-the largest opening for an Asian-American film-with actors Kal Penn and Purva Bedi. She's also the lead in the play, Beneath the Moon, Beyond the Stars, the story of Indian spy Noor Khan. Param, of Indian-Irish parentage, thanks her "mixed heritage" for fitting in. Song. Stage. Screen. She's fit in. |
