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A drama based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, has been ordered to series at Netflix from showrunner, writer, and executive producer John Wells and writer/EP Madhuri Shekar.

The writer’s room has been up and running since February and is close to completion on the eight-episode first season, sources close to production tell Deadline, who have been tracking the show’s progress since early March.

The official logline reads, Unaccustomed Earth is an epic and culturally vibrant drama about a tight-knit Indian American community navigating love, desire, and belonging. Rich with nuance, passion, and unforgettable characters, Unaccustomed Earth invites you into the elite and insular Indian-American community of Cambridge, Ma. When a star-crossed romance between a devoted wife and her long-lost love comes to light, a scandalous affair is born, and new battle lines are drawn...

World sales agency 13 Films has boarded dark comedy “The Trainer,” the new film from “American History X” director Tony Kaye, and will be screening the film for buyers at the Cannes Film Market next month.

The film had its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival, and will have its North American premiere at the Tribeca Festival in June.

The cast is led by Vito Schnabel (“Before Night Falls”) and includes Julia Fox (“Uncut Gems”), Lenny Kravitz (“The Hunger Games” series), Bella Thorne (“The Duff”), Paris Hilton, tennis champion John McEnroe, Gus Van Sant and Gavin Rossdale.

Joining them on screen are Gina Gershon (“Bound”), Stephen Dorff (“Blade”), Beverly D’Angelo (“National Lampoon’s Vacation”), Taylour Paige (“Zola”), Luka Sabbat (“Grown-ish”), Soo Joo Park (“Sense8”), Brock O’Hurn (“The Righteous Gemstones”), Laird Hamilton (“Point Break”), Duke Nicholson (“Us”), Colleen Camp (“Clue”) and Finneas O’Connell, who won Oscars for original song for “No Time to Die” and “Barbie,...

We were recently granted an opportunity to sit down with the stars of Roshan Sethi's critically acclaimed new film A Nice Indian Boy, and in the first half of our two interviews, we caught up with Sunita Mani and comedian-turned-actress Zarna Garg, who makes her film debut with this fun-filled family wedding comedy.

In our breezy conversation, the duo talk me through some of the most fun aspects of making this film, including working with Eternals scene-stealer Harish Patel, and why this feature feels far more authentic than other Indian-American comedies.

The film's synopsis reads, "When Naveen (Karan Soni), a soft spoken doctor, finally brings his charming white-artist boyfriend Jay (Jonathan Groff) home to meet his traditional Indian family, misunderstandings and emotional revelations put everyone on edge. Despite facing uncomfortable truths about their own ideas of love and marriage, the family attempts to plan the big Indian wedding of Naveen and Jay’s dreams.

Although It Ends With Us led to never-ending lawsuits and legal drama, the movie was a major commercial success for Wayfarer Studios and Sony. Now, Wayfarer's latest theatrical release, alongside Levantine Films and distributed by Blue Harbor Entertainment, is proving to be a critical hit.

A Nice Indian Boy has just received a Certified Fresh badge, Rotten Tomatoes confirmed. The LGBTQ+ rom-com premiered in early March at the South by Southwest festival, with a release recently on Apr. 4. Since then, the rom-com has enchanted both the critics and the audience, who gave it a near-perfect score, offering a rare agreement between both camps.

#ANiceIndianBoy is officially Certified Fresh! https://t.co/90e9XJv3M0pic.twitter.com/JuH2ThR8ME— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) April 13, 2025

A Nice Indian Boy follows Naveen, an Indian-American doctor, who brings his fiancé Jay, a white man adopted by Indian parents, to meet his traditional family.

After its March 2024 debut at South by Southwest, Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni’s gay rom-com A Nice Indian Boy has finally found its release.

We at FandomWire spoke with co-stars Sunita Mani and Zarna Garg about how the central conflict was created, how the cast bonded before filming, and why this is a different type of rom-com.

A Nice Indian Boy Interview Courtesy of Levantine Films – Sunita Mani as Arundhathi Gavaskar in A Nice Indian Boy RelatedA Nice Indian Boy Review — Rom-Com Brings Fresh Perspective and Joy

FandomWire: Sunita, your character is fascinating because she has this sense of progressiveness as a younger woman, but at the same time, she resists change and becomes a source of conflict. How did you approach those two seemingly contradictory traits, and how did you work to bring them out in your performance?

Sunita Mani: Arundhathi is 100% a walking contradiction. She has this “Rage Against the Machine” attitude,...

On a massive weekend for Minecraft, there’s another pop at the box office — Fathom Entertainment’s last two installments of The Chosen with Season 5 Parts 1 and 2 both sitting in the top ten.

The Chosen: Last Supper (Season 5) Part 2 is no. 3 with an estimated $7+ million on 2,313 screens. Part 1 is no. 7, sticking around on 1,592 screens in its second week with a three-day gross of $1.87 million and an estimated cume pushing $18.6 million – making Part 1 the best-selling installment yet in the popular series about the life of Jesus.

Part 3 (episodes 6-8) starts next Friday. Fathom will start offering “binge fests” in mid-April so fans can see all three parts. The company has been the U.S. distributor of The Chosen content since 2021 starting with the first theatrical release, Christmas with The Chosen: The Messengers.

Blue Harbor Entertainment’s release of Roshan Sethi’s queer romantic comedy A Nice Indian Boy, powered theatrically by...

Levantine Films is betting on the queer rom-com “A Nice Indian Boy” with a theatrical release — a show of confidence in an era where rom-coms are often relegated to streaming platforms.

The film stars “Deadpool” actor Karan Soni as an Indian man who brings his white-orphan-artist boyfriend (played by Tony and Grammy winner Jonathan Groff) home to his traditional family. When executives at Levantine Films read Madhuri Shekar’s play, they were moved to adapt the project for the big screen.

“Ideally, we’re looking for projects that are very uplifting and give people hope,” Levantine CEO Benjamin Hung tells Variety about how the movie fits into the company’s brand ethos.

Levantine, the indie production and financing company behind awards darlings like “Hidden Figures” and “Beasts of No Nation,” along with crowd-pleasers like “Blinded by the Light” and “Jerry and Marge Go Large,” enlisted Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios to co-finance the film.

Although the future of same-sex marriage feels unclear in the U.S., wedding bells are ringing at the theaters this spring.

Ahead of the release of A Nice Indian Boy, now playing in the U.S. and Canada (preceding Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet remake’s April 18 release), stars Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni spoke to Deadline about why Bollywood “feels so gay” and what made the film “so fucking special.”

Based on Madhuri Shekar’s play, A Nice Indian Boy stars Soni as Naveen Gavaskar, a gay Indian-American doctor who has never brought a boyfriend home, despite his parents and sister’s outward acceptance of him.

While at temple, Naveen sparks an unexpected romance with Jay Kurundkar (Groff), a white photographer who was raised by two adopted Indian parents. Following their meet-cute, the pair is in for quite the culture shock as Naveen’s new boyfriend teaches him...

It’s a month full of “operatives” and each received an effective if familiar campaign. The same goes for April’s videogame adaptations too (Minecraft on April 4 and Until Dawn on April 25). Glossy, plastic, and muddy.

Once again, Hollywood plays it safe. Get the job done, don’t alienate audiences, and never truly inspire them either. So, it’s nice to see a few smaller titles sticking to pure ingenuity as a contrast. Whether fun, aesthetically pleasing, or bold, the below nine one-sheets have what it takes to turn a head. They avoid generic tropes and build themselves from the inside out to provide intrigue above mere utility.

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Is Blt Communications, LLC’s poster for The Legend of Ochi (April 25) a posed portrait? Highly unlikely. Unlike the usual Photoshop-heavy composites going for a collage look, however, they’ve decided to let their amalgam retain a sense of reality via...

In A Nice Indian Boy’s ending, Jay and Naveen get their dream Bollywood wedding after a whole lot of ups and downs. Unlike your typical rom-com, the film doesn’t go from meet-cute to conflict and then love right at the end. It instead focuses more on the family dynamic in Naveen’s life after he introduces Jay into it. It’ll definitely leave you in tears, because you don’t have to be gay to understand Naveen or Jay’s feelings, but you also get to see Naveen’s parents’ side of things from a deeper place that gives you two sides of a picture that’s often painted with just one color. A Nice Indian Boy begins with the wedding of Naveen’s elder sister, Arundhati, who looks to be delighted for her arranged marriage. Meanwhile, though Naveen has come out to his parents, he struggles with his dating life,...

Few movie scenes this year are as joyous as the central gay wedding in Roshan Sethi’s A Nice Indian Boy. It comes after weeks of turmoil that Karan Soni’s Naveen faces after falling in love with a white man (Jonathan Groff) and the way his traditional Indian family reacts to it all. The film serves as a unique twist on a familiar classic, driven by an incredible performance from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse‘s Soni.

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Naveen is a thirty-something gay man feeling lost in his relationship troubles while everybody seems to have it together. It’s not until a chance encounter while praying that he runs into Jay (Groff) that he feels like he’s finally found a partner worth fighting for. After bringing him home to his parents, things quickly fall apart.

The thing is, his family doesn’t seem to...

So, what are you hoping to see this month? Whether you’re seeking a 420-friendly road movie, body horror with a fairy tale twist, based-on-a-true-story exorcisms, or romantic comedies with green cards and gay couples, there’s bound to be a Don’t-Miss Indie in this April edition… two of which will be featured in Film Independent Presents screenings on April 2 and 15 – will we see you there?

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When You Can Watch: April 2 (Film Independent Presents)

Where You Can Watch: Film Independent Theater, Theaters (limited)

Director: Jeremy Workman

Cast: Michael Townsend, Colin Bliss, Adriana Valdez-Young

Why We’re Excited: “Let’s all live at the mall” is the tagline of this documentary about eight artists who did just that – for four years. As Providence, Rhode Island’s historic mill district was getting a facelift in the early 2000s, art spaces were getting ousted in favor of shopping centers and power plants.

One of the breakouts at last year’s SXSW, Roshan Sethi’s “A Nice Indian Boy” is an utterly disarming cross-cultural, inter-generational rom-com buoyed by a sparkling ensemble. Cultural mores and expectations fuse effortlessly with a clever, delightful riff on “Ddlj” in the film’s decisive queering redirection.

Ahead of the film’s US release on April 4, Roshan Sethi and the film’s lead, Karan Soni, sat down with HighOnFilms’ Debanjan Dhar for an exclusive chat.

Debanjan Dhar: One of the best things about the film is how it knits together this intergenerational understanding, like there’s equal empathy and kindness for the parents and their perspective, as well as the sister’s side, not just the couple. Were those elements present in the original play itself? How did it evolve through the script and with you coming aboard?

Roshan Sethi: Madhuri wrote the play to understand her parents, who...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival. Wayfarer Studios releases “A Nice Indian Boy” in select theaters Friday, April 4.

I did not have Jonathan Groff singing “Tujhe Dekha To Yeh Jana Sanam” on my 2024 bingo card. The Broadway actor humbly steps into Indian culture in Roshan Sethi’s “A Nice Indian Boy,” which repeatedly connects back to Aditya Chopra’s “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” — the film that originated “Tujhe Dekha”.

Written by Eric Randall (and based on Madhuri Shekar’s play), “A Nice Indian Boy” is all about subverting stereotypes about Indian culture, both within and outside of the community. The title itself is a cheeky twist on every aunty’s favorite refrain: that when a girl is of the right age, she or her family will find her a “nice Indian boy” to settle down with.

This time, however, protagonist Naveen (Karan Soni...

Amber Midthunder (“Novocaine”) and civil rights leader and trans and health activist Cecilia Chung are among those set to be honored by Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) at the third annual Radiance Gala.

Emmy Award-winning editor Aika Miyake (“Shōgun”), actor Maia Kealoha (“Lilo & Stitch”), actor-comedian-writer Zarna Garg (“A Nice Indian Boy”), Daria Overby (executive director of creative diversity and inclusion for Starz) and Oscar-winning producer Samantha Quan (“Anora”) will also be honored.

In addition, Core (Community Organized Relief Effort) co-founder and CEO Ann Lee will be recognized for her work in providing community-centered wildfire relief to affected Los Angeles communities.

As previously mentioned, actor and comedian Kiran Deol is hosting, and Luna Li will be the gala’s musical guest.

The Radiance Gala honors Asian and Pacific Islander women and non-binary artists, cultural creators, and decision-making power brokers. The celebration will honor the incredible talent advancing Asian and...

Movies have always had a way of connecting people and communities, as well as challenging the typical norms of society. While everyone loves a classic rom-com, things go up a notch when a movie tries to break barriers by telling stories that, in one way or another, push against societal taboos, especially when it comes to love, acceptance, and identity.

Roshan Sethi’s A Nice Indian Boy is such a movie that promises to bring a refreshing take on romance by exploring a same-sex relationship, that too with a mix of traditional Indian family values. With changing times, more and more filmmakers have embraced such storylines.

Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff in a still from A Nice Indian Boy trailer | Credits: Blue Harbor Entertainment/YouTube

And if the buzz for A Nice Indian Boy is to be believed, it will not just bring a creative story out in the open...

Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff find love in the trailer for their new gay rom-com A Nice Indian Boy!

The movie, from director Roshan Sethi, finds Karan playing Naveen, a doctor who meets and falls in love with Jonathan‘s character Jay.

It charts the highs and lows of their personal relationship and their bond with Naveen’s family, with promises for plenty of laughs along the way.

Keep reading to find out more…

Here’s a synopsis: “Naveen Gavaskar is a self-effacing, soft-spoken doctor with a boisterous mother, seemingly perfect sister and quiet father. The Gavaskars are outwardly accepting of Naveen’s sexuality but have never had to confront it in practice. While at temple, Naveen meets Jay Kurundkar, a white man adopted by two Indian parents. Naveen is slowly charmed and softened by Jay’s sincerity and confidence. They fall in love—even as Naveen avoids telling his family about Jay.

A Nice Indian Boy has released its first trailer that stars Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff ahead of its theatrical release next month.

Director Roshan Sethi’s romantic-comedy feature hits theaters April 4 from Blue Harbor Entertainment. Hailing from Levantine Films and Wayfarer Studios, the movie also stars Sunita Mani, Zarna Garg, Harish Patel, Peter S. Kim and Sas Goldberg.

A Nice Indian Boy centers on Naveen (Soni), an introverted doctor grappling with introducing his artist boyfriend, Jay (Groff), to his traditional Indian parents amid the possibility of planning a big wedding.

“My parents are super liberal,” Soni says in the trailer. “Just don’t bring up drinking or sex — and no displays of physical affection.”

Later, Groff reflects on their romantic path. “I think a lot of people are a little embarrassed by the bigness of love,” he says. “The family, the wedding — it’s about everybody together.”

Sethi helmed...

Which Deadpool Star Is Featured In Justin Baldoni’s A Nice Indian Boy? ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Justin Baldoni, the multihyphenate filmmaker behind It Ends With Us, is back with a new film titled A Nice Indian Boy. The actor-director remains ensnared in a legal maelstrom since Blake Lively leveled accusations of s*xual harassment and more against him — a controversy that swelled when The New York Times’ exposé turned the cinema realm against him.

Baldoni countered these claims with defamation suits against The Times and Lively and Ryan Reynolds, striving to enunciate his side of the story. He alleges a couple of extortion, bullying, and other misconduct, maintaining that their coercion forced his Wayfarer Studios to capitulate to the Colleen Hoover adaptation, incurring steep losses in ventures as deals soured.

Yet not all is grim for the Jane the Virgin alum! A Nice India Boy, a long-awaited project under his production banner,...

Ahead of SXSW, one of last year's critical darling rom-coms from the event is preparing to charm viewers in theaters. Wayfarer Studios released the official trailer for A Nice Indian Boy showing the awkward, blossoming romance between Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff. Adapted from Madhuri Shekar's play of the same name, the film centers on the Deadpool and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse star's mild-mannered, introverted doctor, Naveen Gavaskar, as he slowly falls for the Frozen veteran's confident and sincere Jay. When it comes time to take Jay to meet his traditional East Indian parents, however, cultures collide, creating "comic misunderstandings, frank fights, and emotional revelations" that shake the family to its foundations.

"A big wedding party with all the people we love? I want the same thing... with you." Wayfarer Studios has unveiled an official trailer for an indie romantic comedy titled A Nice Indian Boy, which first premiered at last year's SXSW Film Festival. Finally ready for release in April this spring one year later. From director Roshan Sethi, the film is a queer romance about a boy who brings his soon-to-be-husband back to meet his very traditional family. And they even got The hunk Jonathan Groff to play Jay the fiance. When Naveen brings his new fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams. What follows is the comedic & heartfelt collision between the family, and Naveen – caught between the versions of himself his family and Jay know. Karan Soni stars with Jonathan Groff as his fiance,...

Exclusive: Producer Daniel Bekerman and his Scythia Films have signed with WME for representation.

Bekerman served as the EP on The Wedding Banquet, which premiered at Sundance this year, directed by Andrew Ahn and starring Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang.

Bekerman’s recent projects include Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, which received three BAFTA and two Golden Globe nominations along with Oscar nominations for Stan and Strong. He also had Endless Cookie, which premiered at this year’s Sundance; I Object, directed by Oscar-nominee Andrew Niccol, starring Anna Faris and Karl Urban, and Close to You, directed by Dominic Savage starring Elliot Page. Bekerman also produced Sundance-winner The Witch, Cold Copy featuring Tracee Ellis-Ross and Bel Powley, and Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut Falling.

He also executive produced three films that premiered at Sundance 2024; including Love Me, starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, My Old Ass,...

While the strike-impacted 2024 release slate resulted in fewer movies overall, 2025 promises to be something of a return to normal with a bevy of highly anticipated films coming to both theaters and streaming. From two new Marvel movies to James Gunn’s DC reboot of “Superman” to a “Jurassic” reboot to live-action remakes of animated classics galore, there’s plenty of familiar territory, but also noteworthy original films as well – Ryan Coogler’s vampire film “Sinners,” Steven Soderbergh’s ghost story “Presence” and a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie are all on tap, to name a few.

And that’s not to mention the films that don’t have release dates yet but are promised for 2025 – Netflix alone has the third “Knives Out” movie “Wake Up, Dead Man,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and a new Noah Baumbach film.

Oh yeah, and there’s a new “Avatar” sequel coming in December.

In August, Justin Baldoni believed Pac-Man, the yellow, pellet-eating protagonist of the 1980s arcade game, could be the hero he needed to help change the messy narrative surrounding the release of It Ends With Us.

For weeks, rumors of a feud between director-star Baldoni and his co-star Blake Lively had dominated entertainment news headlines, and he was looking for a way to turn the page. According to a text he sent his PR team on Aug. 18, Baldoni suggested sharing the news that he would next direct a Pac-Man movie, something he hoped would help him “move towards the future.”

But Pac-Man, which Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios were developing since 2022, may no longer be in his future. It is among at least a trio of projects that are now in doubt as friction with Lively turned from internet curiosity into a full-fledged legal war.

In recent days, sources close to...

Indian marriages go beyond individual assertions of love to include the jostling familial structures of acceptance and refusal. Then there’s the pervasive influence of Bollywood. Bollywood and Indian culture are so enmeshed the two invariably cast themselves against identity and what celebration of oneself may resemble. The yarn of resistance to private desire gets scrambled furthermore once queerness enters the fold. Roshan Sethi’s new film, “A Nice Indian Boy,” unravels this twine, weaving between the modest and spectacular.

Naveen has almost reclined into accepting he, being gay, may never get to have his own big, fat Indian wedding. He’s lonely, terribly tongue-tied at the slightest sight of any probable romantic connection. He has built all these guardrails around him, nervous to admit his desire. As reserved as he is about expressing his feelings, a photographer who instantly captures his heart, Jay is unabashed in his declarations. The...

CBS has added another comedy pilot to its slate in the form of “Zarna,” a multi-cam sitcom from comedian Zarna Garg.

The comic is set to write, executive produce and star in her own show, with Darlene Hunt as fellow writer, EP and showrunner. Mindy Kaling and Kevin Hart are also attached as EPs, TheWrap has learned.

“Zarna is a proud immigrant woman who’s been raising her American-born kids on Indian values. But now that they’re getting older, it’s time for her to focus on her own American dream,” per the network logline.

Garg is a stand-up comedian who recently opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s “Restless Leg Tour” and is also known for winning Hart’s “Lyft Comics,” her 2023 Prime Video special “One in a Billion” and her self-titled family podcast. She made her late night debut on “The Tonight Show” back in January...

Zarna Garg is set to star in a multi-cam comedy pilot that has been ordered at CBS, Variety has learned.

Garg will also write and executive produce the pilot, which is titled “Zarna.” Darlene Hunt is also attached as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. The project was first reported to be in development back in September.

Mindy Kaling and Jessica Kumai Scott are executive producing under the Kaling International banner along with Howard Klein of 3 Arts Entertainment as well as Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley, and Mike Stein via Hartbeat. Warner Bros. Television, where Kaling International is under an overall deal, is the studio.

The official logline for the pilot states, “Zarna is a proud immigrant woman who’s been raising her American born kids on Indian values. But now that they’re getting older, it’s time for her to focus on her own American dream.”

Garg is a celebrated stand up comedian,...

CBS ordered a pilot for new multi-cam show Zarna, the network announced Tuesday.

The show will star stand-up comedian Zarna Garg as “a proud immigrant woman who’s been raising her American born kids on Indian values.” But, the logline continues, “now that they’re getting older, it’s time for her to focus on her own American dream.”

Garg also serves as writer and executive producer, with Darlene Hunt as writer, executive producer and showrunner. Mindy Kaling and Jessica Kumai Scott will also executive produce via Kaling International, along with Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley and Mike Stein of Hartbeat. Warner Bros. Television is the studio.

Garg released an Amazon comedy special, One in a Billion, in 2023. She also appeared as herself in this year’s Jonathan Groff- and Karan Soni-led A Nice Indian Boy. She has nearly one million followers on TikTok, where she’s known for her comedy sketches.

The romantic comedy “A Nice Indian Boy,” starring Karan Soni (“Deadpool”) and Jonathan Groff is getting a nationwide theatrical release.

Levantine Films and Wayfarer Studios, which produced the film, have tapped Blue Harbor Entertainment to handle U.S. distribution, with a theatrical release date set for April 4.

The film follows Naveen (Soni) as he brings his fiancé Jay (Groff) home to meet his traditional Indian family who, as the film’s logline explains, “must contend with accepting Naveen’s white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.” The cast also includes Sunita Mani, Zarna Garg (“Zarna”) and Harish Patel.

“A Nice Indian Boy” is directed by Roshan Sethi from a script penned by Eric Randall, based on the play by Madhuri Shekar (“3 Body Problem” and “The Nevers”).

“I was closeted only six years ago, so it’s surreal on a personal level to have made...

Comedian Zarna Garg has inked a deal for a stand-up special with Hulu, becoming the latest to take part in their new comedy brand, Hularious.

No specifics on the special were provided, other than that Rotten Science is producing, and that it will launch domestically on Hulu and Disney+ internationally.

Stated Garg, “I’m beyond excited to join the Hulu family and bring families together for my comedy special! Just make sure they get back to their math homework afterward.”

An Indian immigrant mom known for her sharp, relatable family humor, Garg’s first streaming special, One in a Billion, premiered on Prime Video last year. Recently seen in hit SXSW film A Nice Indian Boy, she’s developing the sitcom Zarna, produced by Mindy Kaling and Kevin Hart, at CBS, as we were first to report, and will unveil her debut book next spring. Also known for her Zarna Garg Family Podcast,...

Zarna Garg has set a new stand-up special at Hulu.

Produced by Rotten Science, the comedy hour will launch as part of Hulu’s new stand-up initiative, Hularious. A release date or title has not yet been announced.

“I’m beyond excited to join the Hulu family and bring families together for my comedy special! Just make sure they get back to their math homework afterward,” Garg said in a statement.

Garg is an Indian-born comedian and screenwriter who escaped an arranged marriage and later moved to the United States. She was a stay-at-home mother for 16 years before her children encouraged her to try stand-up comedy. After performing at open mics in New York City, she began winning competitions for stand-up comedy and screenwriting, and was recognized by Kevin Hart and Hillary Clinton.

Garg’s first comedy special, “One in a Billion,” was released on Amazon Prime Video in 2023. She...

The prize catch of the title isn’t exactly who you might expect in “A Nice Indian Boy,” a romantic comedy that brings a welcome queer angle to that substantial subgenre of love stories tangled up in Indian social mores and cross-generational family politics. In many such films, Naveen (Karan Soni) would be the most desirable of matches for a female protagonist: good-looking, well-spoken and a working doctor. That he’s gay puts him in the less traditionally masculine role of the one seeking a suitor; that his “nice Indian boy” is in fact Jay (Jonathan Groff), a white man raised in Naveen’s culture, is the more complicating factor in director Roshan Sethi’s bright, big-hearted if overly tidy third feature.

Still, Sethi and screenwriters Eric Randall — adapting a stage play by Madhuri Shekar — aren’t out to subvert every trope and tradition in the book. From its meet-cute...

Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff are hitting the red carpet at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival!

The co-stars posed for photos together at a special screening of their new gay rom-com A Nice Indian Boy on Tuesday (October 15) held at The Curzon Mayfair in London, England.

Also in attendance was director Roshan Sethi, who is also Karan‘s longtime partner!

Here’s the movie’s synopsis: “Set in the U.S., the film follows socially-reserved doctor Naveen (Soni) who brings his fiancé Jay (Groff) home to meet his traditional Indian family, who must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams,” according to Variety.

A Nice Indian Boy is expected to be released in select theaters in early 2025.

If you missed it, Jonathan‘s exciting next project was just announced!

Click through the gallery inside for 15+ pictures of the stars at the screening…...

The 32nd Hamptons International Film Festival (Hiff) has officially unveiled its 2024 winners.

The festival, which took place from October 4 through October 14, marked the U.S. premiere of John Crowley’s “We Live in Time,” with screenings of “Nightbitch,” “A Real Pain,” “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” and R.J. Cutler’s Martha Stewart Netflix documentary “Martha” among the acclaimed features.

Now, IndieWire can exclusively announce the films that the Hiff jury and audience members selected for the top awards. “Armand,” also Norway’s 2025 Oscar submission, won the Hiff Award for Best Narrative Feature. “Armand” stars “A Different Man” and “Worst Person in the World” breakout Renate Reinsve as a mother of a seemingly disturbed six-year-old; the film debuted at Cannes before screening at Hiff. “Armand” is directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman. IFC Films has U.S. distribution rights for “Armand.”

“’Armand’ is...

Jonathan Groff singing Bollywood tunes is the centerpiece of “A Nice Indian Boy,” a groundbreaking gay rom-com that’s heating up the BFI London Film Festival.

Director Roshan Sethi and stars Groff and Karan Soni (the “Deadpool” franchise) are challenging Hollywood norms with their cross-cultural love story, which debuted at SXSW. It aims to bring a fresh perspective to both LGBTQ+ and South Asian representation on screen.

The genesis of the project traces back to 2019, when Levantine Films optioned Madhuri Shekar’s play of the same name and Eric Randall adapted it as a screenplay. Sethi came aboard in 2021 after the producers saw his previous film “7 Days.” He then approached his real-life partner Soni to co-star. Groff signed on after watching “7 Days.”

Set in the U.S., the film follows socially-reserved doctor Naveen (Soni) who brings his fiancé Jay (Groff) home to meet his traditional Indian family, who...

Quite often, a wedding isnt for the two people up on the altar, but rather, for their families. In certain cultures, particularly India, weddings are of colossal importance, an indication of the health and stature of a family. So, what happens when this generational pressure of upholding old traditions collides with modern sensibilities? You get a joyous, beautiful, and nuanced film like Roshan Sethis A Nice Indian Boy, adapted by Eric Randall for the screen from Madhuri Shekar's play.

Hilary Swank has been cast in the upcoming third season of Yellowjackets. According to Deadline, she'll be a recurring guest star with an option to bump up to a series regular should the show get renewed for a fourth season. No details have yet been released as to who Swank will play.

1497, the nonprofit dedicated to advancing artists and filmmakers of South Asian descent, has selected the three mentees for its 2024 Features Lab, providing mentorship, script development, and industry access. IndieWire announces them exclusively below.

The Features Lab returned in person in 2023 after two years of a virtual and hybrid format in the pandemic, taking place at an immersive Malibu retreat and Los Angeles pitch day. For the fourth year, 1497 will again host the Features Lab in Malibu, where mentees will be paired with a pod of four mentors — an established filmmaker, producer, industry rep, and 1497 Features Lab alum — to receive script feedback and career guidance. Mentees will also work with filmmaker, Columbia professor, and veteran script consultant Adrienne Weiss to further develop their scripts, with a particular emphasis on the emotional journey of their stories.

“We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: we launched the 1497 Features Lab...

Karan Soni has been tapped for the lead role in Andrew Sandler’s upcoming thriller “Fade to Black,” penned by Brandon Cohen.

Soni joins fellow cast members Katerina Tannenbaum (“Better Call Saul”), Max Carver (“The Batman”), Rafael Casal (“Loki”), Gavin Leatherwood (“It’s What’s Inside”), Joseph Lee (“Beef”), John Carroll Lynch (“American Horror Story”) and Zosia Mamet (“The Flight Attendant”) for Sandler’s narrative feature debut. Sandler has directed music videos for artists including Blink-182, Justin Bieber, Machine Gun Kelly and Ariana Grande. Production in Los Angeles is expected to begin in October.

Per the official logline, “‘Fade to Black’ follows Amit (Soni) as he navigates the horrors of trying to break into the twisted business of Hollywood. After an accidental death spurs a sinister epiphany, the screenwriter starts committing the murders of his script’s fictional serial killer in a desperate attempt to generate the IP necessary to get his movie made.

NewFest has announced the full lineup for the 36th edition of the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

The largest queer film festival in the U.S., it will include more than 140 new features, shorts and episodic projects from 31 countries in addition to legacy screenings.

The festival runs Oct. 10 to Oct. 20 in theaters in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as on NewFest’s on-demand platform until Oct. 22, with venues including the Sva Theatre, The LGBT Community Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Nitehawk Prospect Park.

The opening film on Oct. 10 is the N.Y. City premiere of Roshan Sethi’s “A Nice Indian Boy,” which had its world premiere at SXSW. The closing night selection is Jacques Audiard’s musical drama “Emilia Pérez,” which won the Cannes Jury Prize and the best actress award for Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz.

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The 68th BFI London Film Festival has just announced the line-up and – as always – a wide variety of Asian films is included in the vast Programme. Over 12 days, the Lff will showcase 255 works from 80 countries, featuring 64 languages and including 112 projects made by female and non-binary filmmakers.

The London Film Festival, officially called the BFI London Film Festival is organised annually by the British Film Institute (BFI) since 1953. It is the UK’s largest public Festival of its kind and is visited by thousands of film enthusiasts who have the the ability to see films, documentaries and shorts from all over the world. The festival will take place at London’s BFI Southbank and The Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, as well as cinemas and venues across central London, and will run from 9 to 20 October 2024.

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The 68 th BFI London Film Festival has announced the full programme line-up, which will be presented in cinemas and online, across the UK.

The Lff will present a vibrant and diverse programme of 253 features, shorts, series and immersive works from 79 countries, featuring 63 languages playing across the 12 days of the festival. This includes 112 works made by female and non-binary filmmakers – 44% of the programme.

World Premieres

From filmmakers and artists include: Steve McQueen’s Blitz which opens the festival, Ben Taylor’s Cunard Gala Joy starring Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy, the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation’s restoration Silent Sherlock, Darren Thornton’s Irish comedy film Four Mothers, spellbinding performance film from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard The Extraordinary Miss Flower, thriller series A Thousand Blows from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the latest documentary from Oscar®-winning directing duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Endurance,...

Fifteen features will world premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), including Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s documentary Endurance, and previously announced opening title Steve McQueen’s Blitz.

The festival takes place from October 9-20.

Free Solo and Nyad directing duo Vasarhelyi and Chin direct Endurance alongside Natalie Hewit, which examines the lost ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Further world premieres include Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson’s documentary Holloway, about one of the largest women’s prisons in Europe.

Steven Knight’s Victorian boxing series A Thousand Blows, starring Stephen Graham, will receive its world premiere.

The 68th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its star-studded 2024 lineup, featuring Angelina Jolie, Elton John, Daniel Craig, Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield, Saoirse Ronan, and more in a program boasting 39 world premieres and 12 international premieres among its 253 feature, short, series and immersive works.

The festival’s headline gala screenings will showcase a range of high-profile films. The world premiere of Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” starring Ronan opens the festival, while Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece” closes it.

Other gala screenings include R.J. Cutler and David Furnish’s “Elton John: Never Too Late,” Sean Baker’s “Anora,” Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice” starring Sebastian Stan, Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” Edward Berger’s “Conclave” with Ralph Fiennes, Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” Ben Taylor’s “Joy,” Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” featuring Jolie, Marielle Heller’s “Nightbitch” starring Amy Adams, Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door...

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s latest documentary feature Endurance about the epic search to find the lost ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sean Baker’s Anora, and Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch starring Amy Adams are among the titles that have been announced within the full lineup of the British Film Institute’s (BFI) 68th London Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list.

Endurance, which Oscar winners Vasarhelyi and Chin have made for National Geographic, will screen as a world premiere. Running October 9-20, Lff will feature 40 World Premieres, 12 International Premieres, and 21 European Premieres.

Eye-grabbing entries from today’s launch include headline gala screenings of Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, Edward Berger’s latest feature Conclave, and Ali Abbasi’s much-talked-about Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. Other highly-anticipated titles that arrive from the...

Your browser does not support the video tag. Romance and family drama collide in A Nice Indian Boy as Naveen navigates love, acceptance, and self-discovery. The film showcases the importance of acceptance and love within a traditional Indian family, all while delivering heart and humor. Real-life partners Roshan Sethi and Karan Soni bring a personal touch to the story, creating an emotional and relatable film experience.

Romance is not dead, and A Nice Indian Boy is here to prove it. The film, directed by Roshan Sethi and starring his real-life partner Karan Soni (Deadpool), is a rom-com with a whole lot of family drama thrown into the mix thanks to a multifaceted screenplay by Eric Randall and the backbone of Madhuri Shekar's original play. The story centers on an uptight doctor named Naveen (Soni) who falls for a more free-spirited photographer named Jay (Hamilton's Jonathan Groff) after they...

Exclusive: Linda Hamilton (The Terminator) and Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards) have come aboard to star opposite Kal Penn in Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, a new film from writer-director Thane Economou (The Wedding Party) that will launch sales at the Cannes Market.

UTA Independent Film Group is handling domestic rights, and Fortitude International overseeing international.

Pic is based on the memoir of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor (Penn), whose life is turned upside down when he is implicated in the death of his former patient — model, actress, and reality TV star, Anna Nicole Smith. The film takes place at the height of early 2000s tabloid culture and explores the intersection of fame, privacy, self-discovery and politics through the perspective of a man who wound up forced into the spotlight through the court of public opinion.

Cornish will play the late Anna Nicole Smith, with Hamilton as Ellyn Garafalo, the veteran attorney who served as Dr.

Zoya Akhtar (The Archies), Fawzia Mirza (Queen of My Dreams), and Roshan Sethi (A Nice Indian Boy) are set to join the 1497 Features Lab as Mentors.

Returning for its fourth year, the nonprofit 1497’s annual Features Lab will once again offer robust mentorship, script development, and industry access to elevate and advance the careers of screenwriters of South Asian descent. After expanding the Lab to a fully in-person format last year, this year’s program will build on that success with an intensive Retreat and subsequent Pitch Day. The Lab Retreat will take place this October 23-28, 2024 in Malibu.

The 1497 Features Lab, their signature impact program, entails three rounds of rigorous evaluation by independent Selection Committees to ultimately discover three Mentees to invest in. Each Mentee is then paired with a pod of Mentors – comprised of an established filmmaker, producer, industry representative, and a 1497 Features Lab Alum – from whom they...

Naveen & Jay's touching romance is the heart of A Nice Indian Boy. Karan Soni & Jonathan Groff's chemistry shines. The family dynamic adds depth and emotion to A Nice Indian Boy.

There are many romantic comedies released that are neither romantic or funny. It’s a difficult balance to maintain, with the comedy often overpowering any genuine romance, as filmmakers opt for flimsy or superficial pairings. I had that on my mind when I walked into A Nice Indian Boy, a film that perfectly blends romance and comedy and throws in culture and a whole lot of heart to go with it. Karan Soni and Hamilton's Jonathan Groff are pitch-perfect together, and the obstacles they face — internal and family-related — are handled with care and love.

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Self-effacing doctor Naveen Gavaskar meets Jay Kurundkar, a white man adopted by two Indian parents, when Jay takes his picture at the hospital. Despite initial skepticism on Naveens part,...

Walking out of the theater after Ddlj, Jay (Jonathan Groff) launches into a defense of the over-the-top emotionality of Bollywood romances. “I think we’re all embarrassed by the bigness of love,” he declares. His date, Naveen (Karan Soni), is intrigued but skeptical, later recounting the interaction to his work bestie (Peter S. Kim) as a bit weird and kind of corny.

Because A Nice Indian Boy is a rom-com, though, it’s practically a given that Naveen will come around by the end. The film delights in public displays and grand gestures, such that it opens and closes on a pair of weddings. But its real strength lies in its sensitivity toward the messy feelings, smaller acts, and platonic and familial bonds that underlie those epic shows of romance. By the end, even those who don’t fancy themselves the sentimental type — as Naveen doesn’t, and I don...