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May 4, 2026 · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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  Speaker 1: South Asian music and culture can be.
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  Speaker 2: Found around the world.
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  Speaker 1: We're tracked down the.
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  Speaker 3: Best and presented here for you on Raucous Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, everyone listens rug in there and you're listening to
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  Speaker 4: The Bridge with Sammy John.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, this is the Jiu sand and you are now
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  Speaker 5: listening to Rockus Avenue Radio now on the free iHeart Radio.
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  Speaker 6: App Andy, get down.
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  Speaker 7: What's up everybody. I hope you guys are well wherever
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  Speaker 7: you may be across our beautiful world. Here on a Monday.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you very much for tuning in. My name is
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  Speaker 7: Sammy John. Then welcome everybody to a May fourth edition
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  Speaker 7: of The Bridge. It's like Bitch quite possibly, folks, the
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  Speaker 7: most entertaining hour in all South Asian music is coming
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  Speaker 7: at you. I'm super excited about this week. It's been
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  Speaker 7: something that we've been working on here behind the scenes
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  Speaker 7: for the last several days, and I've been conspiring with
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  Speaker 7: my good friend Bush Bondhia, the director of the movie
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  Speaker 7: American Dacy, on bringing this week together for you, and
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  Speaker 7: we'll be shining a light on the film that was
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  Speaker 7: twenty five years ago this year. The movie American Dacy
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  Speaker 7: really a cult classic and I think my goodness, really
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  Speaker 7: the impetus for so many great things that have happened
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  Speaker 7: in our community since. Big shout out to Bush and
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  Speaker 7: the entire cast and crew that was a part of
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  Speaker 7: that fabulous film, and we'll talk about it all week long.
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  Speaker 7: And today, to begin this fabulous week, we're going to
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  Speaker 7: turn Monday's edition of the show towards the two leading
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  Speaker 7: ladies of the film, American Basy. We'll be joined by
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  Speaker 7: the star por of a Baby today. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 7: her about the film, get her take. We'll be joined
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  Speaker 7: by Suneta Bottom of the film as well. It's gonna
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  Speaker 7: be a fun hour this week. We'll be joined by
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  Speaker 7: the rest of the cast as well, Cal Penn, Rizwan Nanji,
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  Speaker 7: the director himself, USh as I mentioned to you can't wait,
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  Speaker 7: cannot wait, It's gonna be fun. Well, we've got a
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  Speaker 7: show to deliver to you today, and we always begin
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  Speaker 7: our Monday morning shows with what was the number one
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  Speaker 7: song for our weekend countdown show. We're gonna start it
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  Speaker 7: off with shub. This song is called Bounce. It's from
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  Speaker 7: his brand new EP called Chapter four.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome to the Bridge, Everybody, It's American Dacy Week on
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  Speaker 8: the show.
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  Speaker 7: Power Pack show for you on a Monday. We'll be
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  Speaker 7: joined by the Rockets Happney Radio All Stars and we'll
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  Speaker 7: be joined today of course by Sunita Bottom a baby
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  Speaker 7: be joined also by Ed de Bray from the United
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  Speaker 7: Nations News Department, part of our partnership with the u
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  Speaker 7: his collaboration with producer Mercy Beats on that song right there,
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  Speaker 7: the brand new song from over the weekend in Punjabi music.
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  Speaker 7: I would say it's the big one. But there's one
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  Speaker 7: It's from del Gito song just performance at Jimmy fallon
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  Speaker 7: last Monday. The song is called Mortny produced by True School.
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  Speaker 7: It's really interesting. I think this specific performance on Jimmy Fallon,
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  Speaker 7: amongst all the things that he has done on a
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  Speaker 7: mainstream level. I'm talking about Diljit Dosange here, but I
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  Speaker 7: really feel that this Jimmy Fallon collaboration that he just
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  Speaker 7: did on Monday on The Tonight Show has resonated into
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  Speaker 7: the mainstream fibers of this country. It really has. You're
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  Speaker 7: starting to see American people like pick up on dil
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  Speaker 7: So let's see what happens. Let's bring in Doctor Roy.
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  Speaker 17: Hey guys, this is doctor Roy with Today's Word on
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  Speaker 17: the Avenue in Film and TV News at CCXP Mexico.
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  Speaker 17: Visual from the panel of ss Rajamuli's upcoming film Varronessy
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  Speaker 17: sparked online chatter after clips showed empty seats during the presentation.
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  Speaker 17: While some call the turnout underwhelming and preemptive, others noted
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  Speaker 17: the footage may not reflect the fall audience, as the
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  Speaker 17: team including Mahesh Babu, Brianca Chopra and pritfeerraj unveiled behind
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  Speaker 17: the scenes glimpses of the film's global scale vision. In
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  Speaker 17: Media News, Delgito Sage selling out at BC Place Stadium
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  Speaker 17: twice is a major milestone not just for him, but
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  Speaker 17: for Punjabi music globally. Drawing around fifty five thousand fans
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  Speaker 17: shows how far the genre has traveled beyond regional boundaries
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  Speaker 17: into mainstream international arenas. In event News, chef Sudish Sandas
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  Speaker 17: has made history as the first Nipali finalist for the
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  Speaker 17: James Beard Award, one of the highest honors in the
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  Speaker 17: food world. From working at A seven to eleven in
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  Speaker 17: Virginia to co founding Dharu and launching Dapuri, his journey
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  Speaker 17: is a powerful testament to passion, resilience and refining modern
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  Speaker 17: South Asian cuisine.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for today's word on the avenue. Until next time,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so.
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  Speaker 7: Much, doctor Roy. We'll be joined here by Mira Sharma.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't name is Samra. It's a great track. It's called
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  Speaker 7: One Day, one of my favorite artists out there right
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  Speaker 7: now that's really emerging on the scene this last few weeks.
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  Speaker 7: There he is. And now let's bring in Mira Sharma
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  Speaker 7: to this episode, who is going to bring a mindful
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  Speaker 7: minute to you, as she does every week on the Bridge.
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  Speaker 7: What's up, Mira, Hey, Sammy, Hey everyone.
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  Speaker 19: Mira Sharma here with your weekly dose of mindful sas
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  Speaker 19: helping you stay self assured, spirited and strong. Hello May,
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  Speaker 19: New month, fresh energy, and a reminder that growser doesn't
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  Speaker 19: always have to be loud. Sometimes it's the quiet shifts,
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  Speaker 19: the better habits, the stronger boundaries, the calmer mindset that
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  Speaker 19: change your life the most. So use this month to
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  Speaker 19: reset your energy, focus on what feels aligned, and step
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  Speaker 19: into the version of you that's been waiting to bloom.
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  Speaker 19: Summer is nearly here, the vibes are lighter, and so
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  Speaker 19: are you. New month's new opportunities. Let's make May count.
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  Speaker 12: You've got this.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Mira. Always great to hear from
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  Speaker 7: Mira on a Monday. I always say, Mira on a Monday,
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  Speaker 7: get you powered for the rest of the week. She
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  Speaker 7: And the rumor is that there's about a couple of
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  Speaker 7: hundred of these unreleased DO songs out there starting to
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  Speaker 7: make their ways out there. You go, there's one song
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  Speaker 7: for you right there. Now, let's bring in Ed Debray
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  Speaker 7: from the UN News Department, as part of our partnership
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  Speaker 7: with the UN News brings us a news report every
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  Speaker 7: Monday morning.
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  Speaker 6: This is UN News Today with me Ed Debray. The
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  Speaker 6: headlines With the Middle East war now in month three,
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  Speaker 6: the UN Refugee Agency warns of the far reaching effects
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  Speaker 6: on aid delivery. Meanwhile, in Mayama, the former State councilor
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  Speaker 6: Ung sangsu Chi has been released from prison but will
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  Speaker 6: remain under house arrest, and a new death law penalty
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  Speaker 6: in Israel perpetuates racial discrimination against Palestinians. Independent rights experts
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  Speaker 6: warn the Middle East crisis is having growing consequences for
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  Speaker 6: global humanitarian supply chains and the delivery of aid. As
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  Speaker 6: spikes and transport costs and freight disruptions are forcing UN
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  Speaker 6: Refugee Agency UNHCR to adapt its delivery strategy. Heightened and
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  Speaker 6: security and instability around key Gulf routes, including the Strait
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  Speaker 6: of Humu's choke point, have severely up to a maritime traffic.
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  Speaker 6: This has triggered a growing reliance on alternative land corridors
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  Speaker 6: to distribute aid, including trucking across the Arabian Peninsula and
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  Speaker 6: Turkey from Dubai. In some cases, shipments are also being
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  Speaker 6: re routed across the Cape of Good Hope, increasing journey
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  Speaker 6: times by up to twenty five days. The impact of
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  Speaker 6: the crisis on aid delivery cost has been substantial. Here's
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  Speaker 6: the UNHDR spokesperson Colotto Wolf.
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  Speaker 21: While the capacity of some of our global transport providers
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  Speaker 21: has dropped from ninety seven to seventy seven percent from
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  Speaker 21: the start of the year, for some shipments, costs have
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  Speaker 21: more than doubled, such as transfer costs for relief items
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  Speaker 21: from unitsr's global stockpiles in Dubai to our Sudan and
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  Speaker 21: Child operations.
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  Speaker 6: However, longer journey times are having devastating impacts on those
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  Speaker 6: in need, particularly Warrisome is the situation for Africa, where
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  Speaker 6: there are many overlapping displacement crises. To Mayama, where the
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  Speaker 6: former Myama State councilor unsangsu Chi, has been transferred from
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  Speaker 6: prison to house arrest, with her sentence reduced under a
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  Speaker 6: prisoner amnesty linked to a Buddhist holiday. The UN Secretary
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  Speaker 6: General welcomed the move, but reiterated his call for the
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  Speaker 6: swift and unconditional release of all those arbitrarily detained as
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  Speaker 6: a fundamental step toward essential political reform. Antonio Gutadesh believes
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  Speaker 6: that a viable political solution must be founded on an
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  Speaker 6: immediate end to the brutal civil conflict across Myamar and
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  Speaker 6: a genuine commitment to inclusive dialogue. Sustained engagement by the military,
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  Speaker 6: junta and rebel leaders with the UN Special Envoy is
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  Speaker 6: crucial to supporting efforts toward a policeful solution. This includes
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  Speaker 6: coordination with regional partners such as the Asian Group of
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  Speaker 6: Nations in line with the calls for the Security Council
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  Speaker 6: and General Assembly. Finally, to Israel, where a newly adopted
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  Speaker 6: death penalty for terrorist law perpetuates racial discrimination against Palestinians.
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  Speaker 6: According to a panel of independent human rights experts who
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  Speaker 6: are support by the UN Human Rights Office WITCHR. According
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  Speaker 6: to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
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  Speaker 6: the new law amounts to a grave erosion of human
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  Speaker 6: rights and urges Israel to immediately repeal the law. The
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  Speaker 6: committee expressed alarm that the law mandates death by hanging
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  Speaker 6: as the default sentence for cases involving an act of
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  Speaker 6: terrorism before Israeli military courts, which have exclusive jurisdiction over
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  Speaker 6: Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, while Israeli citizens and
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  Speaker 6: residents are excluded from them. The committee said the new
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  Speaker 6: law is a severe blow to human rights, rolling back
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  Speaker 6: Israel's long standing de facto moratorium on execution since nineteen
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  Speaker 6: sixty two and expanding the use of the death penalty
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  Speaker 6: in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, including the West
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  Speaker 6: Bank and East Jerusalem. The Committee highlighted its concern that
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  Speaker 6: in Israel, the law applies only to those convicted of
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  Speaker 6: deliberate killing with the attempt of denying the existence of
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  Speaker 6: the State of Israel, making it in effect applicable to
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  Speaker 6: Palestinians only. Further noted that the law prohibits mitigation, commutation
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  Speaker 6: or pardon of the death penalty, and sets a ninety
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  Speaker 6: day deadline for executions once a final judgment is rendered. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 6: the committee said the law was adopted amid escalating settle
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  Speaker 6: of violence and unlawful killings with impunity across the occupied
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  Speaker 6: Palestinian territory, as well as ongoing systematic violations of Palestinian's
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  Speaker 6: due process and fair trial rights. As of January twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty six, nine two hundred and forty three Palestinians were
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  Speaker 6: in Israeli custody, including three thousand, three hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 6: five administrative detainees held without trial at debray Un News.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks so much for that, Ed, And as you guys know,
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  Speaker 7: today we are shining a spotlight on the movie American
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  Speaker 7: Day See, and today is day one of the four
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  Speaker 7: day spread where we shine a spotlight on not only
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  Speaker 7: the film itself, but its impact and all the individuals
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  Speaker 7: that are conspired together to make that film into what
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  Speaker 7: it is today genuinely called classic. And if you're not
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  Speaker 7: familiar with the film, it's really a love story about
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  Speaker 7: a kid grows up here in the United States from
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  Speaker 7: South Asian descent and kind of finds the South Asian
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  Speaker 7: identity through a love story. So we'll get into it
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  Speaker 7: a little bit. Stand by for.
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  Speaker 23: Such Calina chat town, Percalina chat Town, cab be mesiato
• 26:29
  Speaker 23: or could be enny Boto. I means some cigaret Peterny
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  Speaker 23: when guessing get me and many got town to there
• 26:38
  Speaker 23: is to many bats government in a super many a town.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I think he's take America.
• 26:45
  Speaker 22: And even pertly brought to Yourcanobe Balija just ga Gali
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  Speaker 22: chat Town Thomas Mers come on down, Mumma Slam come ton.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Why not name a figur unga.
• 27:01
  Speaker 22: Versiri Mango Hassana by Sunda.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Kamana by Sunda.
• 27:13
  Speaker 22: Land Ubacha plana Forlana Flanaga is.
• 27:18
  Speaker 24: Such a.
• 27:20
  Speaker 22: Rigossana sa Kamana by Sundahadbachavlana Forlana Flanas.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Is such a Zabi Froust t Buya d Mike.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: Subminia Baram is born in Malaysia Tamil heritage. Raised in Buffalo,
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: New York. She brought Father Sai to life in American
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: Daycy and has since carved out a steady career in
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: Hollywood with roles in Blades of Glory, Law and Order,
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: Criminal Intent, and most recently, Adam Sandler's animated hit movie Leo,
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: a true Diasporas story on and off the screen. And
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: as part of our week long special of shining a
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: light on the movie American They See, folks, let's invite
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: this young lady to the show, Sunita Bottom, how are
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: you today? Welcome to the bridge.
• 28:17
  Speaker 25: I am great and I love that you called me
• 28:20
  Speaker 25: the young lady of course.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Reason.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, you know, yeah, you know, I know it's
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: only been what twenty five years, but time is flying? Yes, yes,
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: and listen, yeah, I know that it's been, you know,
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: twenty five years since this film made its way out there.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: What an impact it all made for everybody that was
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: involved in this film. And you don't want to get
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: your thoughts on it. Twenty five years.
• 28:51
  Speaker 26: Yeah, it's really amazing because you know this movie was
• 28:55
  Speaker 26: the first of it's kind, so you didn't see that
• 28:58
  Speaker 26: many brown cases or any at the least this many
• 29:02
  Speaker 26: brand spaces up on the big screen.
• 29:05
  Speaker 25: And it made a massive impression and a huge imprint
• 29:10
  Speaker 25: on so many people's lives.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 29:13
  Speaker 26: I think it was the first time people like you
• 29:16
  Speaker 26: and me felt like they were represented, you know, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 26: part of that was truly incredible.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: You know, I going back to the moment. Let's talk
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: about this in an industry, in a business that was
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: completely radically different than it is now. You know, there
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: weren't so many productions of this nature. You you you
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: get contacted from you know, somebody from the team, maybe
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: get maybe Puche with this grand vision of you playing Fara,
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: and you know, what was your reaction to that? And
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: what was that moment like when you first saw all right, Fara,
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: what is this character and what is this film? What
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: was that moment? Take us back to that initial reaction.
• 30:02
  Speaker 25: God, it was so long ago.
• 30:04
  Speaker 26: Well, so, you know, I was a young actor in
• 30:05
  Speaker 26: New York. It's a late nineties. I did have an agent,
• 30:11
  Speaker 26: and I think I'd only been in New.
• 30:12
  Speaker 25: York like a year or two.
• 30:14
  Speaker 26: I don't remember if the audition came through my agent
• 30:18
  Speaker 26: or whether I saw the posting in backstage, which was
• 30:22
  Speaker 26: like the newspaper at.
• 30:23
  Speaker 25: The time that post auditions, but just I just was like, oh,
• 30:29
  Speaker 25: take a movie and it's like all South.
• 30:32
  Speaker 26: Asians, that's so interesting, Oh my god, okay, it just
• 30:36
  Speaker 26: I didn't we none of us knew what we were
• 30:38
  Speaker 26: walking into. And you know, Pusche over these last few
• 30:43
  Speaker 26: weeks were posting, was posting videos, audition videos, and then
• 30:47
  Speaker 26: I saw this video of my audition.
• 30:48
  Speaker 25: And it was just it was mind blowing.
• 30:51
  Speaker 26: And I think a lot of memory, you know, we
• 30:54
  Speaker 26: forget things over time, but seeing that video, I was like,
• 30:57
  Speaker 26: oh my god, I totally remember that.
• 30:58
  Speaker 25: I remember that room. I remember, you know, it was
• 31:01
  Speaker 25: a big studio, there was a mirror, there was a
• 31:03
  Speaker 25: ballet bar.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: I remember doing that scene.
• 31:05
  Speaker 25: I remember, you know. So it was it was pretty incredible,
• 31:09
  Speaker 25: and nobody knew what it was.
• 31:10
  Speaker 26: Going to be, right, and the fact that he usual
• 31:14
  Speaker 26: was able to do that, like he'd never written anything before,
• 31:17
  Speaker 26: he'd never directed. Pulling together all of these actors and
• 31:21
  Speaker 26: many of whom are doing really really well.
• 31:23
  Speaker 25: And quite successful.
• 31:26
  Speaker 26: Now, you know, pulling all these actors together to do
• 31:30
  Speaker 26: this project. It was pretty incredible.
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: It's interesting, you know, you reflected on what this class
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: of talent has gone on to do. I think a
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: lot of people know several of the actors for what
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: they've done since the movie, but may not know that,
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: you know, the genesis of this was this little classic
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: called American They see that happened. Yeah, you probably come
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: across a lot of people that know you from the film,
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: that soly remember you from playing this role in a
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: film that was so important in our culture at the time.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: You know, put this twenty five years into context for
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: us in terms of the perspective you've gained for its
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: impact out there.
• 32:15
  Speaker 26: Really, truly, I think it's the sense of appreciation and
• 32:20
  Speaker 26: awareness of what I was privileged enough to have a
• 32:28
  Speaker 26: hand in and be a part of, and a sense
• 32:32
  Speaker 26: of gratitude.
• 32:33
  Speaker 25: Honestly, you know, a lot has happened in twenty five years.
• 32:39
  Speaker 26: You know, we grow up and we experience a lot
• 32:41
  Speaker 26: of life, whether it's you know, good or bad, or indifferent.
• 32:46
  Speaker 25: Or both all of it, because that's life.
• 32:47
  Speaker 26: So it's really truly a sense of appreciation and gratitude
• 32:51
  Speaker 26: that I was able to be a part of this
• 32:55
  Speaker 26: incredible piece that affected many people in such a positive way.
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: And congratulations on the big twenty fifth anniversary, and uh
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: here's to celebrate in the fiftieth here pretty.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Soon, pretty soon, Okay, all right, it's fly bye.
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: It'll be here soon all right. So there you are.
• 33:17
  Speaker 25: You are not wrong, You are not wrong.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: Definitely. Thanks for joining us today Asnita.
• 33:22
  Speaker 25: Thank you so much. Have a great day.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: Yep, folks, here's the next song for you.
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  Speaker 27: Give us, just give me the.
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  Speaker 1: Jollie, come.
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  Speaker 12: Go say.
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  Speaker 15: Look look it's a say.
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  Speaker 27: Hurry zuk sis nib hi ocasi jadai bina but i
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  Speaker 27: acsi benazuk sis neb high as Jackpaia, but a cursy
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  Speaker 27: cozy said, don't be delayed to me. Okay, sorry reward Ju,
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  Speaker 1: Don't believe party in y'all don't.
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  Speaker 25: But you.
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  Speaker 1: Know said is the leve highcasing leve Hi.
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  Speaker 12: Back by again.
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  Speaker 3: Soapan it's again again his huh.
• 35:55
  Speaker 12: Say hid the.
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: Snape's a cosey great track right there. It's bringing poor
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: Verbeedi to this show. Eh. She was born in Chendigar,
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: raised between Belgium and New York and a Williams college
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: grad who trained at the British American Drama Academy in London.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: She was the heart of American dacy as Nina Shah
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: and has since built one of the most respected careers
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: in the cast, a Drama Desk Award winner for Dance
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: Nation with credits spanning Sully, Gossip Girl. One of us
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: is lying on the stages of the Public Playwrights Horizons,
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: Manhattan Theater Club, The Amazing Poor Baby, How are you, pa.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: I'm fantastic, I'm so happy to be here.
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, take us back to the moment you
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: find out that you've been You've been put this character
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: of Nina Sean in front of you and you're you're
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: you're probably making sense of how there's so many brown
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: names in a script like this throughout an entire film.
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: And so take us back to that moment, tell us
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: how this role landed in your lap, and walk us
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: through the moment where you're like, yeah, I'm going to
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: do this.
• 37:05
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: I mean I was like a freak avoid for being
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: like an Indian American girl who wanted to be an actress.
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Everyone else was like you know, engineering, med school, law school,
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Like I was like the only Indian person I knew
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: who wanted to act seriously, So it was pretty weird
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: what I was doing. And I was in New York
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: City and I was reading backstage, and I was going
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: on auditions, and you know, it's like I was like,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: people don't know what to do with me, and there's
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: like so few Indian people doing this. And then I
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: got a couple of like basically the same time the
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: American Bacy, like the Little Ad was in backstage. It
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: was the same time as this other play called East
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Of East of Manhattan Theater Club was being done. And suddenly,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: like I went from like not having any idea what
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: I was doing to being cast into things at the
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: same time that were primarily South Asian casts, right, And
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: it was mind blowing for me, And it was pretty
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: mind blowing for all of the other like South Asian
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: actors who were in the projects with me, because we
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: were all pretty isolated and unique and weird in our
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: career choices, you know, to be doing this thing. And
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: then when I, you know, started with American Dacy and
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: I met Kal and Ronevier and Deep and Sunita and
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: Ami and just the whole gang, it was such a
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: beautiful experience to feel not isolated in this funny profession
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: that I was going into, to feel like there are
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: other people like me. I mean I think, like, yeah,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: you know, I basically like had a crush on every
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: single person I worked with, because I was so excited
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: to have met someone who had made some moilre choices me.
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: Right, that's awesome. You know, take us back to that
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: set you have. You have so many awesome folks all
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: collaborating on a project like this, and you just put
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: it very kind of squarely. You all had something in common.
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: You had all made this choice in life, and you
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: were in it together, if you will. What was the
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: energy on the set, like with everybody there?
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: It was you know, it was so long ago that
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: I only remember like the fun and the excitement and
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: the stories were like so like silly and loud, and
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: and you know rewatching, you know, I rewatched the film
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: recently at the American Days, the reunion event, right, and
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: I was actually marveling at how that film was still
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: ahead of its time. It was because it was telling
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: dacy stories, not for the white gaze, but for.
• 39:51
  Speaker 25: The dacy gaze.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Because there's there's a seek storyline there's a Muslim storyline.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: There's you know the story of like a Muslim woman
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: who who is both like modern and teeny boppery and
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: also embraces her culture and religion as well as you know,
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: my character and finds her way through it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 15: But there are so.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Many distinct basy like regionalities and stories in one film,
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Like it wasn't like a Punjabi story. It was like
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: there were some Funjabi characters, but there were you know,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: and you know, actually don't see that very much in
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: an independent like even in an Indian American movie, Like
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: it wasn't like it was a pretty wide swath of diversity.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: So yeah, cool, even if some things are dated and
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: something we wouldn't if we remade the movie now, we
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: would do some different choices.
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: I think, you know, well, going back to it, you
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: you you you you you look at something like what
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: you did at that time. You know, even yourself, like
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: you obviously come from such a serious literary family, you know,
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: with what your mom does right and what she has
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: been accomplished career, and then you have you know this this,
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: I think you've spent an incredible amount of time in
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: your career building infrastructure for whether it is the playwrights
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: out there, if you've done anything towards theater or in
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: the different places that you've done. And I feel like
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: there's something about what Buse did that may have in
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: some sort of way inspired you to go out there
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: and be somewhat of an infrastructure builder, somewhat of someone
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: that can go out there and build the invisible if
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: you will. Is that is that true?
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: You know? I hadn't thought of it that way, But
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: when you say that, it's like, yeah, like he was
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: sort of teaching me the idea of representation matters before
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: I'd ever heard that phrase or anyone had coined it
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: in that way, right, Because here was a script that
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: was exactly what I said, like all of these basy stories,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: and I had been trying to be like, well, what
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: kind of a job can I get as a you know,
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: like a brown Indian American actress. I'll take whatever anyone
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: offers me, but I haven't put myself into a position
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: of power and of like no, no, actually, like we
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: can create these stories and opportunities for ourselves, which is
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: what Pusch was doing, right, Because I was like, well,
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: I guess people can put me in Shakespeare place because
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: people go non traditional casting in those which is a
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: very small minded.
• 42:22
  Speaker 25: Way to think.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: But that is what the world was presenting me in
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: you know, nineteen ninety six. But piuche was doing what
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: everyone like now is like, of course you got to
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: do that, which is making his own stories, making our
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: own stories. So yeah, I think he taught me early
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: that idea, and then my career the last twenty five
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: years has been very much about like helping play rights
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: build the world they want to build, right, and whatever
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: that story is, like find your story, develop your story,
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: believe in your story, and flush it out fully, whatever
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: your skin color, background, gender, sexuality. Right.
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: Nina is an interesting character. Of course, she's probably the
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: most culturally centered out of everyone in the movie. And
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: you know, and at the time, of course you represented
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: you know, something of of I guess that the audience
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: is sitting there being a fan of what the outcome
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: would be for you specifically in the film. And how
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: was that at that time, you know, being somebody that
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: played this role and then you know, being such an
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: inspiration for other leading ladies in these kind of love
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: stories like this and a very unique you know backdrop,
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: give us a sense of that playing the Nina role.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: You know, Nina is aspirational for me.
• 43:49
  Speaker 25: Like I feel like.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: Nina was like balanced and had her act together and
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: was confident and comfortable in her own skin in a
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: way that she was not, Like I might have talked
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: a good game and sold my Needa, but I think
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: I didn't feel totally comfortable, and I didn't you know,
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: have the confidence of like what my culture means to me,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: because it was a different time then, and like beauty
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: was defined, you know, like we're talking about like we
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: made that in nineteen ninety nine, it came out, you
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: know in two thousand and one, Like beauty was very
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: much like white, traditional blonde, blue eyes, you know. And
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: so I didn't have the sort of self confidence of
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: living in my brown skin going to school with people
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: no one looked like me. You know, I was the
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: only one that looked like me when I in all
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: of my educational disciplines in like you know, high school, college,
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: elementary school. So I didn't have the comfort that Nina had.
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: So so.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: It was really like, yeah, it was sort of like
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: I think I think I would.
• 44:59
  Speaker 25: Have liked have been more like Mena in my life.
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: Wow, that's really interesting and thanks for sharing that. I
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: think it probably tells more to the story of the
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: job that you did in that role and realizing, you know,
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: what the character had to portray and you did that
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: so well, and so thank you for that. Right. You know,
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: as you look at the time when the film came out,
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: it comes out right before nine to eleven, in a
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: time where people have not even figured this out from
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: anyone else that's brown, and here's a film that speaks
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: directly to the condition of the South Asian experience here
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: talk about that time, you know, nine to eleven comes.
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: It kind of changes the narrative around the film in
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: a way, but then again reframes it in a much
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: different purposeful way as far as what our representation of
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: our culture is. Tell us back about that absolutely well.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: So I actually think that we were more invisible then,
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: and certainly the Muslim experience on screen after two thousand
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: and one was all quite negative.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: It was, you know, terrorist.
• 46:10
  Speaker 25: Mostly.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: And that's what's so wild about watching the film which
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: came out just before nine to eleven, because you see
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: Riswanmanji and Suneta Parum depicting Islam. It's just like we're
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: just college kids practicing our religion and now we're doing
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: our prayers and now we're going to mock and it's
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: just a part of our life. And also you know,
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: we're going to the school dance and living our life
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: and it's like, oh, watching it, I was like, oh,
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 46:39
  Speaker 25: Is something I never see.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: You don't see like someone just like being a Muslim
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: and being fully integrated into their life in college and
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: it's no big deal.
• 46:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's fantastic. Borva. Thank you so much for spending
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: time with me here on my show. I wanted to
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: one more time just congratulate you on the film and
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: everything that you've been doing in your career. And thanks
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: for joining us here on the bridge.
• 47:03
  Speaker 12: Oh thank you.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: Such a pleasure and so happy to talk to you
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: again after all this time.
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Here's everyone may.
• 47:12
  Speaker 24: Fall goody hold malady, hold, don't no baker get a good.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 12: This man dad hol on, okay on look here son,
• 47:35
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  Speaker 7: And shout out to poor baby, Shout out to Sunita.
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  Speaker 7: Buttom for joining us today. Sp is that you know,
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  Speaker 7: so many incredible actors that came together on that film.
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  Speaker 7: And even though they did work on that film, they
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  Speaker 7: all in their own right went on to be so successful.
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  Speaker 7: And you know, not only to say that that film
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  Speaker 7: was what made them, not at all. Some of these
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  Speaker 7: people were already established. It's how they got those roles.
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  Speaker 7: Here's Rihanna for you.
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  Speaker 30: Hey, everyone, it's Rihanna with the news only on Diaspora,
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  Speaker 7: See you guys smart, Thank you so much for that, Rihanna,
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  Speaker 7: And now let's bring in Dorita Das Gupta to the
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  Speaker 7: show to bring you an artist spotlight. How are you today, Dorrika?
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  Speaker 7: Thanks Sammy.
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  Speaker 31: Hey everyone, this is the Suta Eurokas Avenue Radio Music
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  Speaker 7: Today.
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  Speaker 31: We're shining the spotlight on an artist has been redefining
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  Speaker 31: South Asian music with a whole new vibe. Hassan Rahim
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  Speaker 31: Born in Gilgit, Pakistan, Hassan Raheim isn't just any artists.
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  Speaker 31: He's a doctor turn singer, songwriter, rapper who's been blending
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  Speaker 31: R and B, hip hop and indie pop into his
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  Speaker 31: very own signature sound. He first caught everyone's attention back
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  Speaker 31: in twenty twenty with his viral hit Esa gess It
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  Speaker 31: and trust Me. Since then, he's been unstoppable. Fast forward
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  Speaker 31: to twenty twenty two, Hassan made his Cokes to You
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  Speaker 31: Baby with the funky track pache Hut alongside Tello Kureshi
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  Speaker 31: and Justin Biebe's, which even landed in Marvel Studios Miss Marvel, Yes,
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  Speaker 31: our guy made it into the Marvel Universe. In twenty
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  Speaker 31: twenty three, he dropped his EP Maybe It's Love featuring
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  Speaker 31: Collapse with the likes of Talha and Jundalha, YunOS and
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  Speaker 31: even Rough Star. And in twenty twenty four, he took
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  Speaker 31: things international with Mahrabuan, teaming up with the Indian mediom
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  Speaker 31: Wizard Read this for a cross border banger. What makes
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  Speaker 31: her sound so special. It's not just the smooth vocals
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  Speaker 31: or catchy beats. It's a simplicity heart and a touch
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  Speaker 31: of his giliate roots and he brings that into every song.
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  Speaker 12: Well that's all for me. Now back to you, Sammy, Thank.
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  Speaker 7: You, Doita. We're big fans of Hassan Rahim. Here's his
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  Speaker 7: collaboration with There just for all. The song is called
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  Speaker 7: baby Girl Bailey.
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  Speaker 32: Every night you've been Ama mine babygirl Tera muchos.
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  Speaker 34: Know that you swim, oh baby, and you took me
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  Speaker 3: Yet the baby through and through?
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  Speaker 7: Who's there Jusfall, Hassan Raheem. Then, folks, as we close
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  Speaker 7: out the first episode of our American Dacy twenty fifth
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  Speaker 7: anniversary special right here on the bridge, We're a baby
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  Speaker 7: Sunita Buttam, the two leading ladies who in two thousand
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  Speaker 7: and one gave us Nina and Fuddah, and in doing so,
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  Speaker 7: gave a whole generation of Brown girls in America their
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  Speaker 7: first look at themselves on a movie screen. Twenty five
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  Speaker 7: years later, they're still working, they're still building and still
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  Speaker 7: bridging worlds, and that, more than anything, is the legacy
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  Speaker 7: of this film. It didn't just put us on the screen.
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  Speaker 7: It launched careers and that are still shaping the culture today.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, Tomorrow we flipped the script the two
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  Speaker 7: villains of American Dacy, the man we love to hate, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 7: the boys, the roommates, the brothers, the Ryder die friends
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  Speaker 7: who made this film quotable. And Thursday we close it
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  Speaker 7: out with but Ushpondia, the director himself, looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 7: It's gonna be a fun week here. I hope you
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  Speaker 7: had a great time hanging out with me today and
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  Speaker 7: I hope you enjoyed the first episode of this American
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  Speaker 7: Dacy special. I'll leave you with a saying. The song
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  Speaker 7: is called gay Ja. I have a great day, everybody, So.
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