American Desi

Jan 1, 2001

1h 40m

★ 5.6

Overview

College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Drama

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Cast

Ajay Pandya

Kal Penn

Nina Shah

Purva Bedi

Krishnagopal "Kris" Reddy

Deep Katdare

Jagjit Singh

Ronobir Lahiri

Salim Ali Khan

Rizwan Manji

Rakesh Patel

Anil Kumar

Farah Saeed

Sunita Param

Gautam Rao

Aladdin Ullah

Eric Berger

Eric Axen

Chandu

Sanjit De Silva

Hemant

Sunil Malhotra

Priya

Ami Shukla

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