American Desi (2001)

Amerikansayağı Həyat

Year
2001

Runtime
100 minutes (1 hr 40 mins)

Kal Penn

Purva Bedi

Deep Katdare

Ronobir Lahiri

Rizwan Manji

Anil Kumar

Full cast and crew

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First viewed:
12th Mar 2016

Last viewed:
28th Mar 2026

Total views:
49

US release
16th March 2001

25 years 6 months 3 days ago

Australia
9th May 2002

24 years 4 months 10 days ago

India
27th September 2002

23 years 11 months 22 days ago

South Africa
20th March 2003

23 years 5 months 30 days ago

UK total gross
£133.5 Thousand

US total gross
$801.9 Thousand

Cinema Tickets Sold

UK tickets sold
32,240 aprox.

US tickets sold
141,674 aprox.

Box Office Breakdown

UK Box Office

Released: 28th Sep '01
Debut position: 16
Highest position: 15
Debut gross: £43.6 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 2

US Box Office

Release: 16th Mar '01
Debut position: 24
Highest position: 24
Debut gross: $305.1 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 3

Global Box Office

No global cinema data.

Directed by
	Piyush Dinker Pandya

Starring
Kal Penn	Ajay Pandya
Purva Bedi	Nina Shah
Deep Katdare	Krishnagopal "Kris" Reddy
Ronobir Lahiri	Jagjit Singh
Rizwan Manji	Salim Ali Khan
Anil Kumar	Rakesh Patel
Sunita Param	Farah Saeed
Aladdin Ullah	Gautam Rao
Eric Axen	Eric Berger
Sanjit De Silva	Chandu
Sunil Malhotra	Hemant
Ami Shukla	Priya
Krishen Mehta	Mr. Reddy
Smita Patel	Mrs. Reddy
Bina Sharif	Mrs. Saeed
Tirlok Malik	Mr. Saeed
Laura Lockwood	Shiela
Peter Brouwer	Professor Rosenstein

Totals for each star

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Movie story - American Desi

College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates.College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates.

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