Padma Lakshmi Shares Her Favorite AAPI Creatives, From Mindy Kaling to Bong Joon Ho

I look forward to the day there are many more Asian American TV creators and filmmakers who get the chance to tell multifaceted stories with bigger budgets. It’s great to see every ethnicity popping up in regular scenes in films and television just going through regular, everyday problems, and not just addressing problems related to being that ethnicity.

2. Mindy Kaling, “Never Have I Ever”: I stayed up until 5 a.m. binge-watching the first season with my daughter — we just inhaled it. I love it so much. And I’m such a fan of everything Poorna Jagannathan does as well.4. Maulik Pancholy as Jack Donaghey’s assistant Jonathan on “30 Rock”: He was so hysterical in this role!1. Mira Nair: “Mississippi Masala”Do we ever ask European Americans what it feels like to be white in this country? I’d love to hear what they have to say.

When I’m looking at Indian characters, for example, they are so often portrayed one-dimensionally. That’s changing now, thankfully. We have people who are Indian American who are gaining power in Hollywood and are making TV programs that are more nuanced, complex and authentic to those communities — people like Mindy Kaling and Aziz Ansari, who bring such amazing depth and rich entertainment quality to their stories.

What it means to be any minority in this country is to see your stories get treated without the same attention to detail — like lighting specially for our skin tones, or larger budgets for the overall project. You so often don’t see yourself represented in meaningful, high caliber ways as that of your white counterpart. But as more AAPI filmmakers get to do big projects and tell stories from our points of view, that will change.

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