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Sacha Dhawan: After Outsourced

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Actor Sacha Dhawan

After the success of "Outsourced", a workplace comedy series on NBC about an American company’s call center in Mumbai, British actor Sacha Dhawan shares his experiences on the show with Urban Milan readers!

Dhawan played the role of Manmeet on the show which debuted in 2010. Outsourced was the first American show that was based on the South Asian community and featured a large ensemble of South Asian actors. Manmeet's hilarious character on the show had only two interests...More...



A New Way of Meeting "The One"

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Tired of looking for love online, in bars or even at the grocery store?

You have been set-up on countless dates by friends and family, gone on about a thousand online dates only to realize that your family/friends have bad taste and people post their best picture ever taken in their life online...More...

Oscar Winner to Headline NYIFF
March 6, 2012

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Saving Face, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge’s Oscar-winning short documentary about the plight of two Pakistani women who were victims of acid attacks, is one of more than 50 hand-selected films that will wow audiences at the 12th annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF). Presented by the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC), NYIFF is scheduled from May 23-27 at Tribeca Cinemas in lower Manhattan. NYIFF has premiered some of the most well-known South Asian and foreign films, including Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, Bride and Prejudice, Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake, and several others. Some of the highlights of this year’s festival include:

*May 23rd - Opening Night Red Carpet Screening & Gala Benefit
*May 24th - Industry Panels at Tribeca Cinemas
*Script-writing workshops
*Nightly networking parties at lounges around New York City
*May 25th - Centerpiece screening: Tribute to Dev Anand 
*May 26th - Sidebar: Shyam Benegal Retrospective
*Children's films afternoon screenings and discussions
*May 27th - Closing Night Red Carpet Screening & Awards Ceremony

For more information visit: http://www.iaac.us/NYIFF2012/ 
 

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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Cast: Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Bill Nighy, Tena Desae, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup with Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL follows a group of British retirees who decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India.  Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.