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Actor Ankur Rathee: From Princeton to Bollywood and Hollywood, the Road to Best of the Best
Growing up, Ankur Rathee only saw South Asians on screen playing age-old tropes. This week, he plays Ronak in Netflix's Best of the Best, a South Asian leading man written as a true hero, something Hollywood has rarely put on screen.
Simi sits down with Ankur to trace his unconventional journey to acting. It runs from a family of farmers in Haryana, to a California childhood spent reenacting Bollywood dance numbers, to Princeton, where he couldn't stay off the stage.
From there, it's ten years building a career in Bollywood (Four More Shots Please!, Made in Heaven), and now a lead role in a…
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