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May 5, 2026 · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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  Speaker 1: South Asian music and cultures can.
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  Speaker 2: Be found around the world.
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  Speaker 3: We'd tracked down the best and presented here for you
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  Speaker 3: on Ruckus Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, everybody, I'm Cartonage Land.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Allo Wise, this is Monty saying. You're listening to the
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  Speaker 2: Bridge with Semisham.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I forgot to tell you, guys, I had a great
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  Speaker 6: time seeing Monprede sing this weekend in Los Angeles. He
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  Speaker 6: was amazing. I was really impressed with monprethe and if
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna go buy stock in a comic right now
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  Speaker 6: in the Punjabi scene, go put your money down on
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  Speaker 6: Montprete Singh's career.
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  Speaker 1: He's headed places. He really is big.
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  Speaker 6: Shout out to Monpree sing and of course shout out
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  Speaker 6: to him for inviting me out. I had a great
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  Speaker 6: time interviewing him back on April ninth, right here on
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  Speaker 6: the show Good Times.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?
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  Speaker 6: My name is Sammy Johns and welcome everyone to a
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  Speaker 6: May fifth edition of The Bridge. Get your tequila shots, everybody.
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  Speaker 7: It's single de mile way too early for me, but
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  Speaker 7: please go ahead. Feel free to partake.
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  Speaker 1: During this hour.
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  Speaker 6: We got a lot to celebrate here as we are
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  Speaker 6: in the middle of American Dacy week here on the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's day number two.
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  Speaker 6: And yesterday, if you found the signal you checked out,
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  Speaker 6: the two leading ladies from the cult classic film SUNet
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  Speaker 6: the Bottom and Port of a Baby joined us on
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  Speaker 6: the air. And today today, today, today we had the three.
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  Speaker 1: Bad Guys joining us.
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  Speaker 6: So if you remember the film, the three bad Dudes
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  Speaker 6: that we have on today, will be joined today by
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  Speaker 6: sun Je Da Silva.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 6: We'll be joined today by Anil Kumar who played rock
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  Speaker 6: Ash Patel, the ultimate villain in that movie, and will
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  Speaker 6: also be joined by Snil Malhotra, who played Chandu the
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  Speaker 6: bad Dude number three.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll be.
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  Speaker 6: Joined today by the Rokus Avenue Radio All Stars, as
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  Speaker 6: we do every day on this show. And we've been
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  Speaker 6: having a good time with this entire Spotlight. It's a
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  Speaker 6: big film and.
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  Speaker 1: A lot to talk about and a lot to go through.
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  Speaker 1: And let's begin with this one. It's sabat Batin.
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  Speaker 6: The song is called Galason Welcome to the Bridge.
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  Speaker 8: That's a love name, Tony, But.
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  Speaker 1: And the jet with.
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  Speaker 8: Tranni my par the Tokyo can the.
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  Speaker 1: Cur Wish was sag Wish cause.
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  Speaker 5: Journey.
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  Speaker 1: She has both.
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  Speaker 8: They are both to time you. They are both occuring.
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  Speaker 5: Your non.
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  Speaker 9: In the accurring is hard not appearing as the bar
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  Speaker 9: not charge. Look John turn O kids then got my
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  Speaker 9: only pony on party.
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  Speaker 1: And gets a guy on the.
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  Speaker 9: Aney call soon delivery and he needs a good terneally
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  Speaker 9: soon delivery and he needs.
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  Speaker 2: A good.
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  Speaker 6: Savatin. The song called Gollison got a great episode, as
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  Speaker 6: I mentioned to you on the onset. We'll be joined
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  Speaker 6: by Sunjit Da Silva. We'll be joined by Anil Kumar.
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  Speaker 6: We'll be joined by Maltra, the three bad guys from
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  Speaker 6: the movie American They see We've got the.
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  Speaker 1: Rockets, Avenue Radio all Stars in the house.
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  Speaker 6: We'll be joined by Doctor Roy Here very shortly Power
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  Speaker 6: Pack Show.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the Derek hari.
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  Speaker 10: Ya don't man to yeah, but I have to make
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  Speaker 10: but I have to marry to Visa Gina which to.
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  Speaker 8: Tuesday is.
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  Speaker 10: S C week Si coyaraka too is a myn got
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  Speaker 10: this agasy weeks Coara looking pretty man, you know, don't
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  Speaker 10: too yeah, but may to bes a Gaina. On the
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  Speaker 10: show Your Female Lucky and it is your day Lucky
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  Speaker 10: love pe coing Pelle. You know, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 9: Rata ready ya know me to you but now yo
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  Speaker 9: do me to Pia kinda.
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  Speaker 6: It's de cars work on the movie part two and
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  Speaker 6: he collaborates with Pile Dave on that song and talking
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  Speaker 6: about collaborations, rolled me up some Carnodola and rolled me
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  Speaker 6: up some one Republic. The song is called tell Me
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  Speaker 6: Really one of the highlights of the collaborative world last
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  Speaker 6: year in our space.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the song you go.
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  Speaker 12: get Ban that's the hor J Pauling get band.
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  Speaker 1: That's I see card. The long ye Charling.
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  Speaker 5: That's I'm not trying to say, you're trying to tell
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  Speaker 5: you what it is. I want to give you everything
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  Speaker 5: that don't be on events.
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  Speaker 4: I listen to the King Carl the money, now the key,
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  Speaker 4: that's Harlan, you John, that's the.
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  Speaker 3: Day, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, Carmela,
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  Speaker 3: just kill me so you gotta god gard tell me.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta go that tell me.
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  Speaker 13: Terrible gaps about in Hearty Karada. He does the Reconnamanda Sarama,
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  Speaker 13: he does Menura Corakadi, many a man Data a securityary
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  Speaker 13: Lord Manday Marie who is Akada.
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  Speaker 1: The theory high.
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  Speaker 5: That's the day that today me jell me, tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Say you got Amana, just give me so you gotta girl,
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  Speaker 1: gona tell me.
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  Speaker 14: So you've gotta tell.
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  Speaker 1: Me so you've gotta go. Gotta tell me. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: big collaboration there. It was a great song.
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  Speaker 6: You know a lot of these collaborations, most of them,
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  Speaker 6: I would say, in a very controversial statement here don't
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  Speaker 6: do very well. And it's really until both artists participate
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  Speaker 6: evenly in a social way to promote the song does
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  Speaker 6: the song really work. And in most cases, the Western
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  Speaker 6: artists right now are not reciprocating its main the Indian
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  Speaker 6: artist doing all the projection of the song. So that's
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  Speaker 6: why some of these songs don't make it to the mainstream.
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  Speaker 6: See what happens here going forward as more of the
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  Speaker 6: stuff happens. Now, let's bring in Doctor Roy to the party.
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  Speaker 6: What's up Doctor Roy?
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  Speaker 15: Hey guys, this is.
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  Speaker 16: Doctor Roy with today's word on the avenue. In Film
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  Speaker 16: and TV News, at Cinema Con twenty twenty six in
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  Speaker 16: Las Vegas, Vitio Jamwaal created a striking moment by chanting
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  Speaker 16: the guy Thri Mantra during the unveiling of Street Fighter.
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  Speaker 16: The unexpected gesture resonated globally, with many praising the blend
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  Speaker 16: of Indian spirituality and mainstream Hollywood spectacle. In media news,
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  Speaker 16: at a New York red carpet event, Nita Buddy turned
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  Speaker 16: heads not with trends but with tradition, wearing a beautifully
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  Speaker 16: crafted JOm dannisari that took nearly two years to weave.
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  Speaker 16: Created in Fulia by Budmasha Wardi barn Gumar Bassak and
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  Speaker 16: presented through swathees, the piece reimagined the classical weave with
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  Speaker 16: intricate narrative motifs, sparking the conversation about Haire reinvention and
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  Speaker 16: the evolving identity of Indian textiles on a global stage
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  Speaker 16: and event news. Indian American philanthropists Vija Rama Christian and
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  Speaker 16: Bravina Rama Christian have pledged three million dollars to Duke University,
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  Speaker 16: advancing radiology, innovation and medical training. Their contribution reflects a
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  Speaker 16: larger trend with diaspora giving now surpassing five billion dollars annually,
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  Speaker 16: underscoring the growing global impact of Indian origin communities. That's
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  Speaker 16: it for today's Word on the Avenue until next time.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much, doctor Roy. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: the daily Word on the Avenue.
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  Speaker 9: Here.
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  Speaker 6: This song that's playing underneath Me is something that you
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  Speaker 6: will recognize immediately from its baseline, and the song itself
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  Speaker 6: was an iconic moment of the film American Basi. This
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  Speaker 6: week we turn our attention to the film. Let's pay
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  Speaker 6: a little attention to the music.
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  Speaker 17: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Here's av jess Akoi.
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  Speaker 18: Just suppose leave me eyes go both, Bunjack Bunjian, just
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  Speaker 18: suppoy me begive me eyes go both, Bunchi Giant Baha Jumper,
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  Speaker 18: Go Comma g Sa go Jun com me then got
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  Speaker 18: shot twelve.
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  Speaker 5: Suck is not coming.
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  Speaker 8: Buncho John just a boy babes sleive.
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  Speaker 2: Me the eyes.
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  Speaker 19: But John J.
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  Speaker 18: Wrior just a toy.
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  Speaker 1: Bas sive me the eyes.
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  Speaker 18: BoJack song Fish does.
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  Speaker 1: It's a classic, no other way to wrap it up,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's from the movie Kurbani.
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  Speaker 6: Photos Khan Vin Old Khanna, a great film that was
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  Speaker 6: of course seen at them on and the song featuring
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  Speaker 6: the vocals of Nausea, Hassan and folks. Let's bring in
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  Speaker 6: sungjt Da Silva into the episode right now, one of
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  Speaker 6: the actors from American Dacy, and really American Dacy was
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  Speaker 6: this first feature film. But of all the actors in
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  Speaker 6: the crew there, I think he was probably the most
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  Speaker 6: that was involved in theater out of everyone, I would say,
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  Speaker 6: and worked in the Tony Award winning show called Warhorse,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and then did some work off Broadway even
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  Speaker 6: and did some stuff alongside in TV and so many
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  Speaker 6: different places like The Good Wife and Anna and Evil
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  Speaker 6: and so many great shows like that. And so it's
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  Speaker 6: really a cool pleasure of mind to invite Sujet da
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  Speaker 6: Silva to the show. What's up, Sunjet, how you doing brother.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm good man, I'm good. It's it's so great
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  Speaker 17: to be here. I'm actually in La and and last
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  Speaker 17: night Hayman, Chundu and Rakesh got together at a at
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  Speaker 17: a Mexican restaurant, had margaritas and reminisced about American basingh
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  Speaker 17: twenty five years, just like that Sunday five years.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, how would you summarize this twenty five years?
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the legacy of this film.
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  Speaker 17: It's kind of mind blowing, you know. When we did it,
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  Speaker 17: you know, that was my first on camera job. I
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  Speaker 17: was just amazed that there was this movie about South
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  Speaker 17: Asian made by South Asian. And I didn't think anything.
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  Speaker 2: Of me, but I was just like, I'm glad to
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  Speaker 2: be on camera.
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  Speaker 17: I'm I was glad to be acting, to get my
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  Speaker 17: first gig, you know. And I don't think any of
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  Speaker 17: us I had any idea of the kind of impact
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  Speaker 17: it would have on our community. And honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 17: this year, on the anniversary year, is when I have
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  Speaker 17: started to even understand it even more because that generation
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  Speaker 17: who grew up with it. I'm friends with a lot
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  Speaker 17: of them and they have told me, like I used
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  Speaker 17: to watch that movie every week in college. I saw
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  Speaker 17: myself and I actually for the screening, I had a
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  Speaker 17: good friend of mine I become friends with. She came
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  Speaker 17: with me to the screening and it was amazing because
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  Speaker 17: I got to rewatch the movie through her eyes and
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  Speaker 17: how important it was for her and so and the
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  Speaker 17: actually reunion day was amazing that most of the cast
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  Speaker 17: was able to be there. We all were just like
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  Speaker 17: hugging and celebrating, and I have a whole new appreciation
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  Speaker 17: of how much it meant, you know, for they sees
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  Speaker 17: to actually see themselves represented, and that it's carried on.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 17: I've told me like South Asian actors who are like man,
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  Speaker 17: I saw this movie was so impactful for me, you know,
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  Speaker 17: and so to look back has been a gift that
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  Speaker 17: I that I had never expected to understand in a
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  Speaker 17: new way. And to see it from people who watched
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  Speaker 17: it ben who have now grown up and have careers
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  Speaker 17: in the arts. Yeah, yeah, So it's been really amazing.
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  Speaker 17: And reconnect with everybody too, you know, because I'm still
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  Speaker 17: friends with so many of the cast.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. I'm sure it feels like a family
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  Speaker 1: to a certain extent. And anytime you guys get together
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  Speaker 1: like this.
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  Speaker 6: It's a family reunion twenty five years down the line,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, you touched on something really interesting. And
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  Speaker 6: I've been speaking to so many of the other cast
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  Speaker 6: members throughout the week, and one common threat that I've
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  Speaker 6: found in all the discussions has been just everybody really
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  Speaker 6: marveling at how much everybody individually has gone on to accomplish,
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  Speaker 6: including yourself. You've had such a deep career in theater,
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  Speaker 6: You've done so much work behind the camera, the Spike
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  Speaker 6: Lee's of the world to you know, you know, founding
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  Speaker 6: a collective for South Asian South Asians in theater. You
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  Speaker 6: I mean, just would you have ever thought that so
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  Speaker 6: much progress in our space would occur in these twenty
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  Speaker 6: five years like this.
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  Speaker 17: You know, there has been tremendous progress, and it's amazing
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  Speaker 17: to see how many other day SI's are out here
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  Speaker 17: and people are, oh, I don't know that, I don't
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  Speaker 17: know that person, you know, whereas before it was just
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  Speaker 17: a small circle and has been amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But I do have to say I.
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  Speaker 17: Am surprised that we haven't made more progress.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to be honest, Yeah, I thought, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 17: Watching American Dacy again and I was like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 17: so many different people are represented up on the screen.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 17: There's so many religions, so many different kinds of basis
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  Speaker 17: on the screen. And now I haven't seen a movie
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  Speaker 17: like that symp them that has that many perspectives in
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  Speaker 17: the same movie. And I kind of was like, wow,
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  Speaker 17: you know, so I feel like, even though we've made
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  Speaker 17: so much progress, I still feel like there's so much
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  Speaker 17: more to go, you know. And it was a good
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  Speaker 17: reminder that we have to keep making our own stories.
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  Speaker 15: We have to keep investing in the storytellers, the producers
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  Speaker 15: and directors, because it's the people behind the scenes creating
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  Speaker 15: that need to keep getting the opportunities to make these stories,
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  Speaker 15: you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's a mix of like proud of what
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  Speaker 2: was accomplished, but knowing that there's still a lot to them.
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  Speaker 6: I'm nodding here very aggressively because what you're saying is
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  Speaker 6: so true. The infrastructure has to continue to evolve and
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  Speaker 6: there needs to be more support in this space.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 6: The audience is definitely there. Here we are talking about
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  Speaker 6: a film about our story and our condition in the
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  Speaker 6: diaspora twenty five years later, and also talking about how
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  Speaker 6: little of it has been contextualized since then, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and that's really interesting. And so you know, you look
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  Speaker 6: at Giteeshu as the producer, and then you have Byush
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  Speaker 6: Pandia who was the director of the film, and you
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  Speaker 6: look back and say, wow, what a courageous act twenty
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  Speaker 6: five years ago, devoid of social media and all these
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  Speaker 6: different places, to go about aggregating so many amazing people
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  Speaker 6: in one place and congregating them into a mission like this.
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  Speaker 6: What an accomplishment from Beusche. And you know, as someone yourself,
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  Speaker 6: like yourself that has worked behind the scenes on projects
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  Speaker 6: like this, man, let's talk about you know how this
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  Speaker 6: film came together from that perspective and maybe pure some
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  Speaker 6: flowers here, What an accomplishment for somebody like that such
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  Speaker 6: a long time ago to have the vision in the
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  Speaker 6: foresight to make a film like this.
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  Speaker 17: You know, I guess at the time I didn't even
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  Speaker 17: I didn't even think about it that way, you know,
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  Speaker 17: I was just like, oh, there's a movie, all right.
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  Speaker 2: But looking back at it now and we did.
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  Speaker 17: This talkback after this, meaning I actually had this revelation
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  Speaker 17: how much of my life I have gained from this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Right? Because it was my first film. And in that film, Samiel.
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  Speaker 17: Mahotra and I, who played Chundu, we met, we became,
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  Speaker 17: we became best friend. He ended up being the person
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  Speaker 17: who introduced me to my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Wow that Yeah, you can't make this stuff up. It's
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  Speaker 1: just incredible.
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  Speaker 2: You you can't. Yeah, you can't, you know. And we've
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  Speaker 2: remained great friends. And now you know, my.
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  Speaker 17: Son is here at at USC and and to Del's
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  Speaker 17: wife actually went to the USC and she helped us
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  Speaker 17: with the applications and and and college stuff and like
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  Speaker 17: there it's been like so much of my life as like, uh,
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  Speaker 17: from that and if you should reminded me, ask you.
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  Speaker 17: My wife actually auditioned for a baby and so I
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  Speaker 17: was destined to me her.
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  Speaker 2: At some point.
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  Speaker 17: But but and then Torva and I have done plays
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  Speaker 17: together and then call and I did the workshop like
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  Speaker 17: a couple of months ago, and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 17: it's amazing that it was a film he was making
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  Speaker 17: because he felt the story wasn't being told and what
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  Speaker 17: he created wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Just a film.
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  Speaker 17: What you created was a community, a whole community, uh,
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  Speaker 17: of the of the actors themselves, but of the audience
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  Speaker 17: that that grew up with it, and that, to me
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  Speaker 17: is the greatest accomplishment you know of this film that
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  Speaker 17: grew community right, and and that's a that's a cultural change.
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  Speaker 17: It's one thing to have a movie that's great, but
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  Speaker 17: when a movie actually creates the community around it, you
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  Speaker 17: have a laughing change in society.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's that's pretty darn impressive.
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  Speaker 6: Sunje it, mister de Silva, thanks so much for sharing
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  Speaker 6: all that, and uh, best of luck with with all
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  Speaker 6: the great stuff you've got going on there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 25:26
  Speaker 17: Thanks for having me, and I'm looking forward to hearing.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Uh so they want to get together.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You got a brother sunjet to Silva. Everybody all right, man,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: thanks so much. You're sor rev.
• 25:38
  Speaker 14: You're here mechsnight, your eyes on the seat, your body
• 25:46
  Speaker 14: from my Yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 20: You plackage with love, Yeah, you plackage with love.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Sometireles.
• 25:54
  Speaker 20: God, you never get it now, you'll never get it now.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: For what you are.
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: I must look in here to side please face to
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: face with your lips some mid kind of legs on
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: the pilcase sidwise leading up with your love lane lets
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: to mine.
• 26:16
  Speaker 21: I'm must looking at you sidewise sideways, Sidi almost looking
• 26:24
  Speaker 21: at you silence sids Yeah, still must be up.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: To suse me of like you do.
• 26:37
  Speaker 20: They dangle your words like diamond. They got me with
• 26:42
  Speaker 20: eyes hit you. Yeah, you plickings will love. Yeah, you
• 26:48
  Speaker 20: plickings with love to feel it's gone.
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: You never get now, you never getting now to what
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: you are. I'm must look in here to sidse face
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: to face while your lips somewhere had a LEX on
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: the twocase sideways. They didn't know where your love line
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: lets to my.
• 27:12
  Speaker 21: Harmos looking at you sidwise sidewise, sideways, Amos looking at
• 27:20
  Speaker 21: you silence sidwis Yeah, it.
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: Hurts me to watch you late and it hurts me
• 27:31
  Speaker 11: to watch you sif had a lord it's going on bait,
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: but I just want to stay sideways. I must look
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: into your side where's face the face while your lips
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: some mike had a LEX.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: On the pillow case sideways.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: They didn't know where your love line lets tomorrow.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Harmos looking at you.
• 27:56
  Speaker 21: Sidewise, sidewise, sadway, I'm just looking at it. Sid said.
• 28:05
  Speaker 12: Yeah, let s.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: All right, folks, we've done it. We've got our man
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: on the phone here and listen. I know aneil you
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: are known as the villain in this movie. Yeah, I
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: can't disagree with that summation of you being a general
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: great guy.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: But uh, it's been twenty five years. How does it feel?
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 28:51
  Speaker 19: Wow, still feel like the same guy. It's just that
• 28:55
  Speaker 19: the body his aged. I look at my stif in
• 28:58
  Speaker 19: the mirror, like if I don't look at myself in
• 28:59
  Speaker 19: the miror, I still feel.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Like that, like, you know, for a mid twenty year
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: old guy that's doing his thing. But but you know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the body as you get older, start to age a
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 29:08
  Speaker 19: But you know what I mean, I think it's I mean,
• 29:11
  Speaker 19: I feel amazing. It's what's really fun is to really
• 29:15
  Speaker 19: kind of bear witness to the to the impact that
• 29:18
  Speaker 19: this film has made, and you sort of like go
• 29:20
  Speaker 19: through your life and you know, you go on with things,
• 29:23
  Speaker 19: and you don't really realize after so much time how
• 29:28
  Speaker 19: much of an impact this film really made.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Right socially and also from a professional level.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: I think both of those areas this film was equally impactful.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Not only did you start to see the beginnings of
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: what was the storytelling from a very diaspora perspective, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: you start to see that come forward, but then you
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: start to see these amazing actors that came from this
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: film and went on to you know, do amazing things.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: And so the impact of this was pretty wide. Tell
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: me about what, you know, twenty five years later, you
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: you look back on this now, you you measure the
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: impact of the film more of a professional perspective and
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: what this film really meant. Yeah, you know, how did
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: you put that into words?
• 30:10
  Speaker 19: Yeah, you know, that's a great question. And I think
• 30:15
  Speaker 19: one of the things that it was like at the
• 30:17
  Speaker 19: beginning back then, there were so kind of few of
• 30:21
  Speaker 19: us out there.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I mean, I.
• 30:22
  Speaker 19: Mean there there, there, There weren't we were there, There
• 30:26
  Speaker 19: were lots of us there, but we weren't. We didn't
• 30:28
  Speaker 19: really have a voice, We didn't really.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Have a place.
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 19: There was the the you know, casting and you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 19: the It was just such a narrow field of parts
• 30:39
  Speaker 19: that were available on a larger scale, right like, we
• 30:43
  Speaker 19: can go and do theater all we want, you know,
• 30:44
  Speaker 19: and you know downtown and whatever, which we did, uh
• 30:47
  Speaker 19: to kind of show our voices. But in terms of
• 30:49
  Speaker 19: film and television, there was you know, unless you're a
• 30:52
  Speaker 19: cab driver or corner shop guy, there were really no
• 30:55
  Speaker 19: roll streets about you know, twenty thirty years ago. And
• 30:59
  Speaker 19: then you get guys like and and and we've got
• 31:01
  Speaker 19: to give respect to the guys that were out there
• 31:03
  Speaker 19: like even before us.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: You know, the guys like you know a Day Naidu
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: that was out there doing doing his thing in New
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: York and you know, uh.
• 31:11
  Speaker 19: Uh Angel Nigum that was out there doing his thing.
• 31:14
  Speaker 19: A guy's like Bernie White that were like even years
• 31:17
  Speaker 19: before us that, you know, I just can't imagine what
• 31:19
  Speaker 19: it was like for those guys. But what you know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 19: in terms of the film's impact, what it did really
• 31:25
  Speaker 19: was it started to kind of you know, tap at
• 31:28
  Speaker 19: that glass ceiling. It started to open the envelope just
• 31:32
  Speaker 19: a little bit wider to show American audiences that, like,
• 31:36
  Speaker 19: you know, not everybody has a you know, has an
• 31:39
  Speaker 19: accent like the stories. The thing about it is that
• 31:42
  Speaker 19: the story was a familiar story.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: There's a romantic.
• 31:45
  Speaker 19: Comedy, boy meets girls. Like everybody when you when you
• 31:48
  Speaker 19: get down to it, you know the truth of what
• 31:52
  Speaker 19: it is. It's a romantic comedy. It's it's a story
• 31:55
  Speaker 19: about love, it's a story about rivalry, it's a it's
• 31:57
  Speaker 19: a human story just told through the lens of a
• 32:01
  Speaker 19: bunch of brown people, and that people saw that and
• 32:04
  Speaker 19: that and that, and then this is one of the
• 32:06
  Speaker 19: first films, if not the first film.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: To really do that.
• 32:09
  Speaker 19: I mean that was the impact that it was really
• 32:11
  Speaker 19: the vanguard of all this, because if American dacy didn't exist,
• 32:15
  Speaker 19: there are so many.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Other things that wouldn't exist too.
• 32:18
  Speaker 19: I agree with that, you know, the opportunities and things,
• 32:22
  Speaker 19: so there there there, you know, there would be no
• 32:24
  Speaker 19: crazy rich Asians if there wasn't an American dacy first.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: And I'm going on records.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: Saying that I agree with you, and which is why
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: were we are, you know, giving such platform to this
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: film because of its importance, and I think the impact
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: has to be really recognized for sure.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: And yeah, definitely, yeah absolutely.
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: You know, on this note, you look at folks like Bush,
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: who you know, was imagining things that we probably at
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: the time were like, what are you doing here?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: This is crazy an Indian movie like.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: This about our you know, and and now looking back
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: on it, you you start to realize what the impact
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: that he made, you know, give take me back to
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: the moment. When did this film come to you? How
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: did it come to you? What was your first reaction
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: to the role that you'd be playing.
• 33:12
  Speaker 19: Well, you know, I have to say that it's on
• 33:15
  Speaker 19: a couple of different levels that it was you know
• 33:18
  Speaker 19: that it affected me, you know, both personally and professionally.
• 33:22
  Speaker 19: When I first got the script, I was like, wait,
• 33:26
  Speaker 19: what is this? It read like, I'm like, what is
• 33:31
  Speaker 19: really going It was such a I don't know, it
• 33:35
  Speaker 19: was I first never read a script that was stilled
• 33:37
  Speaker 19: with so many Indian people, right, that was you know, yeah,
• 33:40
  Speaker 19: and what and what it was? It was really it
• 33:44
  Speaker 19: was so exciting because it's the first time that I
• 33:49
  Speaker 19: had done any film or television. Is also very very
• 33:52
  Speaker 19: early in my career. But that it was that I
• 33:54
  Speaker 19: was surrounded by people that looked like me.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Right, you know, I'm.
• 34:00
  Speaker 19: Surrounding I'm sitting in a room, I'm sitting even in
• 34:03
  Speaker 19: the audition space of people that look like me, a
• 34:05
  Speaker 19: brown guys going out for these roles, and I'm like,
• 34:07
  Speaker 19: where did you come from?
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't need to know you existed.
• 34:10
  Speaker 19: So not only did it create like this sense of
• 34:14
  Speaker 19: uh uh, you know, it was personal sort of like
• 34:17
  Speaker 19: validation in terms of like, oh my god, I'm not
• 34:19
  Speaker 19: the only Indian guy out here. Trying to do this.
• 34:22
  Speaker 19: There is a community of people. And what it did
• 34:24
  Speaker 19: was start to build a community of people and artists
• 34:30
  Speaker 19: that I'm like, oh god, I'm not alone out here
• 34:33
  Speaker 19: doing it. Yeah, and it really so you know, when
• 34:37
  Speaker 19: I read it, I was just I was absolutely you know,
• 34:39
  Speaker 19: I was absolutely thrilled.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And the and the idea of like, you know, of
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: playing the villain.
• 34:45
  Speaker 19: I mean, I love playing a villain because you know,
• 34:48
  Speaker 19: if you get to know me, and you know me
• 34:50
  Speaker 19: by now, you know, I'm a freaking goofball. So when
• 34:53
  Speaker 19: I walked in the room and I like, I just
• 34:55
  Speaker 19: be like a bad ass, beat people up the stuff,
• 34:58
  Speaker 19: it's really kind of so not who I am. So yeah,
• 35:04
  Speaker 19: I mean it was, it was really it was thrilling
• 35:06
  Speaker 19: to get it. It was you know, it was thrilling
• 35:07
  Speaker 19: to be a part of it. And but but none
• 35:10
  Speaker 19: of us could have known, you know, at that time,
• 35:13
  Speaker 19: how far reaching and how successful.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: It would be.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: Thank you for joining us today. First of all, thank
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: you for sharing this really interesting vantage point on this
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: cult classic as we'd like to call it here on
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: the air. And and and again, thank you for your
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: contribution to now what is this classic film in our community?
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And uh and and and as our friend here on
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the show, wish you continued success, my brother.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you, my brother. I really do appreciate it.
• 35:40
  Speaker 19: And if there's a message to send out to any
• 35:42
  Speaker 19: of the young artists that might be out there listening
• 35:45
  Speaker 19: and and and and trying to find their voice, I just.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Tell your story.
• 35:50
  Speaker 19: Be honest, be ruthless, be ruthlessly honest with yourself, and
• 35:54
  Speaker 19: go out there and make art. Just do it with
• 35:58
  Speaker 19: with reckless abandon because there is a place for you.
• 36:02
  Speaker 19: We're waiting for you.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Thank you, Neil, thanks, thank you very much
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: for joining us.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Brother.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: It's my pleasure of course. And Neil, thanks so much.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Here's Jasmine Sandless.
• 36:12
  Speaker 22: Everyone, John Man, johnny Man, johnny Manjock got to the
• 36:21
  Speaker 22: Nore to marry Delu Meda, johna.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Man, johny Man, johnny Man, John go to the dor.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Are you're married?
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Delu medrafter l the Hogy, gust the bool A, Honky Ruber, look, thank.
• 37:27
  Speaker 23: You, catch up, killa baby, not so much more your touch,
• 37:33
  Speaker 23: l A give the week problems wor can send me
• 37:38
  Speaker 23: come to your chest. We can have baby, Thank you,
• 37:43
  Speaker 23: save baby.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Much program what then.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Me come come will from the proper.
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: Carry the.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: John Him and John him and die don't.
• 38:17
  Speaker 22: Wren't married?
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: Did you mad? Did you pass it on? John m
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: John Him and John him and die don't when that's
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: aren't married? Did you mad? Did you pass they can
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: ring him the hockey Coo boll the hog robber room.
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: They ding him. Don't don't get.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Promised. We've got the third of the bad guys here.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: We've talked to sung it that, we've talked to anil
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: and folks and joined me and inviting in Snilmo Wholtra
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: to the show.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: How are you, smil very very good?
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Ah? You know that today has been a great show.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: And of course to follow you up now having talked
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: to the other two bad guys, it only makes sense
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: the three Gunda in the house.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: That's right. We're a bunch of troublemakers. Yeah, back then
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: and today?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, man, for sure.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: Well listen, you know twenty five years we've been, you know,
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: just trying to put this film into context for everybody
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: that's that's not only familiar with the film, but the
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: very few that are catching up with it now. If
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: there are any out there, and you know, of course
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: your role is playing Chundhu and and everything that you
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: did in the film, you know, thinking back twenty five
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: years later, tell us about the moment you found out
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: about the film and and everything since then about it.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Well, so, and I have to say, I have to
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: give you, I have to give you a problem. I
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: have to congratulate you. I'm getting my character name right.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: And this has been an ongoing joke for twenty five years.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: So if you look on the credit, sunj Da Silva
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: and I are swapped in terms of our character name.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: I played Chundhu and he played ham On. But in
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: the credit it's actually and then on IMDb, which is
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: like a for those who don't know, it's website that
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: category that catalogs all of the you know, projects and
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: roles that anyone in the industry has been associated with,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: I'm also miscredited. That comes from the producer.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Hey, so I'll be talking about this week. Maybe we
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: fixed this right away, you know.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Five this wrang so like and even in the twenty
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: fifth anniversary like materials, I was like, oh yeah, this
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: is such a great thing. And you know, I wrote
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: in a little thing saying hey, this is so great,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: and like also we got to think to it, so
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: this would be a good time to correct and it
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: never got direct. I was like, okay, that's that's just hilarious.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: So and this is the story. This is for all
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: you fans to know the behind the scenes moments of
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: what happened. So nineteen ninety nine, we're at our first
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: read through, and you know, I didn't know that so
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: many of these people would be like lifelong friends at
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: the time, right, we were all grappy actors, and I
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: really like, we're gonna, We're gonna. There was like love
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: and a lot of competition, and so they were like, okay,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: you guys, you and Sonta, you're playing hang up in Chundu.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: That's how they said it. And so we were like
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: what what are we and and we were like those
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: who the hell are we? So then we were like okay.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: So then there was I think chund had had a
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: line or a moment that was like in the script
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: that was especially like interesting or funny or something something
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: about it. There was something in there, and so there
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: was a twinkle in both of our eyes where we're like, uh,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I mean they didn't say so I'm to do it.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: So then we did this thing where it was like
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: I said, and I was like, you know what, I'll
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: be the bigger man. You go ahead and do this. Yeah, right,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: And then he said no, no, no, no, no. He
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: instantly saw through my my bull like instantly saw through
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: it and said, oh no, I'm going to be the
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: bigger man, and I want to give it to you.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: And we did this like two or three times, and
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: then finally I was like, great, thanks bye, and I
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: ran away and He's like, I thought I had one
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: more time that basically, and then he literally became like
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: in the course of that lead through we became we
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: became great, great friends. And I think all that chemistry
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: you know that you see that up there. I mean,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: like so many of the bits we would just kind
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: of improvise on the spot. We'd be like, hey, excuse this,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: this is a cool idea. How about this? And and
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, do it, like you know what about
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: you know, so we all of that, we discovered, you know,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: in that little kind of actory moment, our own natural
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: both affinity for each other and our chemistry with each other.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: And and yeah, you's like you're like one of my
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: clothes friends.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's so awesome. That's such a great, great thing.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: And to find these kind of lifelong bonds through these
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: experiences like this movie was, it's pretty cool.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: That's really awesome.
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: So Neil, you know, your your story is really interesting
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: to me because you know, of all the folks that
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: were in the film, and everybody, everybody has such a
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: great career they were involved in the middle of it,
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: or maybe some of these great careers began at this film.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is.
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: This film was a part of so many people's story
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: in a unique way. For you, you know, the arc
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: of it being who you are and becoming you know,
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: not only a space of acting and everything that you did,
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: but you know, your amazing voice over work and all
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: the great acting that you did there and the voice
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: of the and and you know, I feel like this,
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: this this all thrusted all of you guys into the
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: limelight in a way like that that the very few
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: of us had had the opportunity of having before. And
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: and I think that, you know, because of this film,
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: the industry became a little bit more normalized to seeing
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: us out there.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: What do you think about that.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: About the industry?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, getting.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: Normally get a little bit more normalized to us and
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: getting used to seeing us on screen the way that
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: they did, you know, tell us about that, and I
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: know that, you know, obviously it wasn't so normal for
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: us to see us on screen before this.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean certainly back then it was. I'll say this.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: So at that time, in the like kind of late
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: late nineties kind of peeking into the early off. Yeah,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: it was like this kind of renaissance of South Asian
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: American specifically South Asian America can art, uh, dramatic art
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: being produced. So like there were movies, there were multiple
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: theater companies in New York at this time, you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: uh Salam Theater, Jakey Pina Theater that there were, there
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: were a couple, there were more than that.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: There music was exploding everything, I mean just that it
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: was crazy.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Everything Like Basement Bungerl was going on, and that was
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: like the thing every week to go to for everybody,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: not not just Basis. There were like a bunch of
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: indie movies that came out of you know the uh
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: you know, I I've done a couple. I know that
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: there were others. There was like ab CD had come out,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Indian Cowboy dude, where's the party. Yeah, there were.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Many of these music as well.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there there were like a bunch there
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: were a bunch of them, and so like, and you know,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: people were like kind of trying to figure out their voice,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: figure out what they want to say, figure out the stop.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: But the fact is is that there were just so
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: many things happened right and then. But the industry like
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: like sort of the Hollywood industry was sort of like, yeah, yeah, okay,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: that's nice. I think over the course of time, you know,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: we've seen it's definitely better than it was. It is
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: better today in twenty twenty six than it was in
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: two thousands, right, right, or you know, two thousand or
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: one or whatever.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: No doubt.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: And also it's always an end also, right, And also
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: we have so far to go. And also we are currently,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: like right now, in this exact moment, seeing kind of uh,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a turnback right now, you know,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: just within I mean this is a little inside baseball stuff,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: but like right now.
• 48:16
  Speaker 17: Within the industry, within the business, we're seeing.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of you know, kind of well we we
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: kind of want to go back to white.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting time.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's what's happening at this moment. So you know,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: I think I think the the answer then, and uh
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: and is the same as the answer now, which is
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: that we have to keep making our stories. We have
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: to keep you know, telling our stories. And when I
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: say our stories, I don't just mean like, you know,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: of course there's always going to be room for like
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: identity based stories, but any kind of the stories that
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: we tell are our story, right, right, we're telling them
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: that's not telling them, right, and we're always going to
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: have that point of view. We So so yeah, I think,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: And it's so funny. I just I heard this uh
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: interview with them talking about you know, saying like saying
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: that same idea, like we need to tell our own stories.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I was just talking to a writer friend of mine
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: and she's like, we have to figure out a way too,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: you know, create ways of getting our stories out there
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: that aren't necessarily just always dependent on structures that are
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: potentially going to diminish us. Right, So, oh my god,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: that got real deep.
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: I was just like sitting back there, I was like, wow,
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: this is awesome, you know snel Okay, no, no, this
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: is this is awesome. And I appreciate that that you know,
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: your your your thought on this, because it is an
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: important note and it should be mentioned as part of
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: what as you put it. And also right it's it's
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: these are all parts of it, you know.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Of course of course I mean a sport well it
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: sound a court finger better now than they were than
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: they were before. But I can't help the same hand
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: also and also as well, yes, absolutely so much, so
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: hard to go, We really do that.
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: The whenever I've spoken to folks from the cast, such
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: a brethren that's built through the film in a way
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: where like these bonds have lasted such a long time,
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: you know, it's like a joint experience, ye a.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Bond, you know. And of course Shunte and I are
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: like super super tight. I actually introduced him to his wife.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: How about that? That's really awesome.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: And my wife helped get his son into college.
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: That's you know, that's really funny that to that point,
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: before I actually brought him on to interview him, he
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: had mentioned that to me that you know that you
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: guys go back so far like that.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: That's really awesome, Neil.
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: You know, I wanted to thank you for sharing so
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: many great memories with us, today and for taking us
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: back to that set and for putting us in the
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: mode of what it was like to you know, start
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: this film and be a part of it. A great
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: conversation with you, with you today, Saneil, and for for
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: completing the Trifecta of Bad Guys, and for all of
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: you guys there checking.
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  Speaker 1: Us out on social media.
• 51:22
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• 51:29
  Speaker 6: the video footage, Sanil, thanks so much for joining us.
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: Thank you, yeah, thank you so much, and thanks for
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: completing the trifecta of Bad Guys. And we'll keep our
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: fandom on for you, maman for all the great things
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: you're doing out there.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot lot of love. Brother, Thank thank you, brother,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Sanil.
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: That's Sanil hold for everybody in a big shout out
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: to a Neil Kamar and sun Jet the Silver for
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: stopping by.
• 51:52
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• 51:54
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• 51:59
  Speaker 24: We close the week with labor rights and digital democracy.
• 52:02
  Speaker 24: Policy discussions and parts of the GOLF are reportedly exploring
• 52:05
  Speaker 24: updated labor frameworks for migrant workers. South Asians make up
• 52:08
  Speaker 24: a significant portion of the workforce and construction, healthcare, and
• 52:12
  Speaker 24: service industries across the region. Any reform affecting wage protection,
• 52:15
  Speaker 24: mobility rights, or sponsorship structures could impact millions. Global watchdog
• 52:19
  Speaker 24: groups are warning about the rise of AI generated misinformation
• 52:22
  Speaker 24: ahead of upcoming elections in multiple countries. Deep fakes and
• 52:25
  Speaker 24: synthetic media are becoming harder to detect. With South Asia
• 52:29
  Speaker 24: entering multiple electoral cycles over the next few years, digital
• 52:32
  Speaker 24: literacy is becoming as important as voter turnout. Labor dignity
• 52:35
  Speaker 24: and digital truth both define democracy in the modern world.
• 52:38
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• 52:40
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• 52:44
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• 52:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, see you next week there, Rihanna, And looking forward
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: to tomorrow's show.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: We're going to be joined by Calpen, We'll be.
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: Joined by Rizwanmanji'll be joined by Aladdin. It's gonna be
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: a great episode and those three guys are pretty fun dudes.
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: In their own right, of course, playing so many different
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: vast roles out there in their careers, but three of
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: them were somewhat of the advocates of the protagonists in
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: the film American Basi looking forward to the conversation tomorrow
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: and folks, now, let's bring Induitada.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: To this party.
• 53:17
  Speaker 25: Thanks Sammy. Here everyone, this is the data Ukasavni Radio
• 53:21
  Speaker 25: Music curspondent back with some fun facts about your favorite artists.
• 53:25
  Speaker 25: Today we're shedding a light on a true gem from
• 53:27
  Speaker 25: the Punjabi music scene, Glapsitu. Born and raised in for
• 53:31
  Speaker 25: Wahi Bernalla in Punjab, Glabsidu first hit the scene in
• 53:34
  Speaker 25: twenty fourteen, but it was his twenty seventeen track Parliji
• 53:37
  Speaker 25: that really put him on the map. Since then, he's
• 53:40
  Speaker 25: been dropping hits left and right, blending traditional vibes with
• 53:43
  Speaker 25: the fresh morning twist that keeps fans coming back for more.
• 53:46
  Speaker 25: You've probably heard some of his biggest tracks at Court Nakra,
• 53:49
  Speaker 25: Ayanak and Priyanka, songs that not only get you vibing,
• 53:53
  Speaker 25: but tell real stories about life, friendship and everything in between.
• 53:57
  Speaker 25: He even paid a heartful tribute to his late friend
• 53:59
  Speaker 25: and super stars Musawa with the song Raleigh seriously emotional
• 54:03
  Speaker 25: and powerful stuff and he's not slowing down anytime soon.
• 54:07
  Speaker 25: In twenty twenty five alone, go Ups drop some incredible
• 54:09
  Speaker 25: new tracks like Jari and Time, Nasil and Golbat and
• 54:13
  Speaker 25: trust me, each one hits differently. Golabs to Do isn't
• 54:17
  Speaker 25: just making music, He's building a legacy, blending deep Da
• 54:20
  Speaker 25: tradition with the spirit of today's generation.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Well that's all for me.
• 54:24
  Speaker 25: Now back to Sammy.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Thanks Doita, thanks so much. Love to do.
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: One of my favorites out there for sure, this song
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: called Yes No. I'll be right back here with my
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: closing remarks on today's show.
• 54:36
  Speaker 26: Shut Ayatasha bin to the tell.
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: Theauri is Indgi.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Hockey bab de Burie gor.
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  Speaker 26: Tell do the hoole Guria that's here to get the
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  Speaker 26: god any more? Then the whole boia alivated that here
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  Speaker 26: you get the.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: God any moon.
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: Then the whole boria.
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  Speaker 26: Geena, Marca, Ferocity, Pelo, whom they are Paramosoper, Hello, hum
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  Speaker 26: the the what you you think?
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Whom?
• 55:29
  Speaker 26: The Malo Hello, Humda Canlo Huata.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello the down who told him?
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  Speaker 26: Mada ko not Tony, Paint them a alimated that here
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  Speaker 26: to get the godny mo Ho. Then a whole Boia
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  Speaker 26: alimated that here you get the god any mo how
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  Speaker 26: then who Buria licked Jack the katy lady.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Madea They're area.
• 56:16
  Speaker 26: They're the pay Kata Mana Shatrika Ruga bandabadham Shaka, Papa
• 56:25
  Speaker 26: baby come Jackama called Dehak and Jack a heavy da
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  Speaker 26: timid hand Shaka Lacordia are there Jack the other the
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  Speaker 26: elite even have a night John Jake Homegouria, Corinna Dave,
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  Speaker 26: Ko Burier, Oh the other. Did you need the Mahu
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  Speaker 26: doctor junk Oh Bourier, Ruka Kama or.
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: R n Magit. The whole body.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Is song call yes No. I was just sitting here
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: thinking about this. I want to give a shout out
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: to Nil, Snil and Sunjet for stopping by. You know,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: we lovingly call these guys villains. They're anything but villains.
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: Three super cool, good dudes, the craftsmen, really classically trained
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: individuals brought Broadway tested decades.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Deep in the work.
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: Anil with his Rutgers MFA and his runs through twenty
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: four Big Little Lies and the public sunge It with
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: his tish pedigree war horse on Broadway and his Shakespeare
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: in the Park and Sneil who's gone on to become
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: one of the most prolific South Asian voice actors in
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: the game. Prince Wu in the Legend of Korra Kung
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: Lao and Mortal Kombat Halo Valorant Vox Machina, three of
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: the most serious actors to come out of American dacy
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: hiding in playing sight as the guys.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: You weren't supposed to root for.
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: Tomorrow, we bring you the boys, the roommates, the writer dies,
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: the funny guys, the friends that were the guys that
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: supported the protagonist in the show. And then on Thursday
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: we'll close it out with bush Bandhia himself can't wait.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: It's been a fun week here on the bridge. I'll
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: leave you with this song. It's called Promise Kari. You
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: have a great day, everybody see tomorrow.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: Ham ok.
• 58:59
  Speaker 10: At the babies, A daughter junk on me.
• 59:05
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  Speaker 27: Coma dot boom say German and coma dot macy the
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  Speaker 27: servies A dot boom say jermy and dotesh.
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  Speaker 1: Money each cook long one Dom