Sujata Day is Telling a Different Kind of Story About South Asian Americans
We interview Sujata Day about Definition Please, paying homage to Bollywood, and why she never wants to be a producer again.
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We interview Sujata Day about Definition Please, paying homage to Bollywood, and why she never wants to be a producer again.
The Netflix film stars Sujata Day ('Insecure') as a spelling bee champ who reconciles with her estranged older brother.
The Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati is back this year with another virtual presentation of movies.
D: Antoinette Jadaone. Philippines, 2020, 100 min. Opening night film. Filipino idol Paulo Avelino stars as a twisted version of himself in this unique look at celebrity and the teens who worship their flawed icons. (Drive-in screening, June 4, 7:30pm, Community First! Village Drive-In Cinema: Virtual access June 4-6) Center Stage. D: Stanley Kwan. Hong Kong, 1991, 126 min. Glowing 4K restoration of Stanley Kwan's critically lauded 1991 semi-documentary, semi-biopic of Ruan Lingyu, "the Chinese Garbo," with Maggie Cheung as the groundbreaking actress from Shanghai whose tragic fate gave a wa...
Sujata Day reached the breaking point. "There was a year during pilot season when all of the Indian American female roles were tied to some kind of arranged marriage plotline," she tells the American-Statesman over the phone last week. “I was just like, ‘Oh my god, I can't do this anymore,’ because me and my Indian American friends growing up, that's not something that we ever experienced with our parents or our families. Although there are some great movies and TV shows that have a plot line like that, it just doesn't have to be every single plot line.” So, Day started writin...