Miss India America

Mar 24, 2016

1h 35m

★ 5.7

Overview

Lily is a winner, but when her boyfriend leaves her for a vapid beauty pageant queen, she gets the notion that winning the Miss India America title would bring him back. Since Lily is perfect in everything else she does, it should be a cinch...or so she thinks. The pageant world isn't just pretty smiles and high heels, and her main competition, Sonia, gives her a run for her money.

Genres

Family

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Mr. Kicks and Lady Megs

Simhan and Kapoor

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Cast

Lily Prasad

Tiya Sircar

Sonia Nielson

Hannah Simone

Seema

Kosha Patel

Gita Prasad

Meera Simhan

Sam Prasad

Bernard White

Sanjay

Satya Bhabha

Reshma

Sameera Eligeti

Deep Pandey

Cas Anvar

Nita Nanji

Anushka Rani

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