Daily News | How the ‘brown kid from Downingtown’ got around to making films
Back in 2003, filmmaker Nardeep Khurmi was up on stage in Downingtown West High School, playing Ali Hakim, the Persian peddler in his school’s production ofThe school had picked the show so he could play a part which, he said, was an honor. But it made him question his place in the industry as an aspiring Indian American actor. “It kind of hit me at that moment where I thought, ‘I’m so subservient to what’s available.
Growing up in the “white suburbs of Philly” without a South Asian community, Khurmi remembers being one of very few brown kids in the Chester County borough. The armor he created for himself as the “class clown” in Downingtown is something Khurmi wanted to explore with Kiran. “You start judging yourself and you start judging this rich culture you come from simply to survive and just live,” he said. “Not being an active member of the Sikh community and hiding himself behind hats and clothes and things like that — he’s [Kiran] built an armor.”
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