![]() ![]() I hope she’s able to break out of that fear of disappointing people and do what she wants.” She’s always struggling between what she wants and trying to make everyone around her happy and to meet everyone’s expectations. “I think that would help the audience see why she is the way she is. ![]() “If there is a season 2, fingers crossed, I would love to see more of Kamala’s backstory,” she says. “The Indian experience is very in me, so even though I grew up here and my experience is different if I would’ve grown up there, Kamala’s experience is still relatable to me.”Īs for a possible season 2, Moorjani hasn’t heard yet on if Never Have I Ever has been picked up for another season, but she does have ideas on where she wants Kamala to go. We went to India a lot of times growing up and I spent a few years living there by myself in Mumbai to pursue acting,” she says. “I didn’t have the experience that Devi had, who felt super disconnected from her culture. ![]() But unlike other storylines about arranged marriage in American pop culture, Never Have I Ever doesn’t once make Kamala seem different because she’s about to marry a man she hasn’t met.Ī post shared by Richa Shukla Moorjani she was born in Northern California, Moorjani, who worked with a dialect coach for Kamala’s accent, felt connected to Kamala’s experience as an immigrant due to the way she was raised around Indian culture. Never Have I Ever, which premiered on April 27, follows Kamala’s new life in Sherman Oaks, California, where she lives with Devi and her mom to attend college, and her complex emotions around her arranged marriage. But I was on your show eight years ago.’ And then she remembered. “I just told her, ‘I don’t know if you remember. “I don’t think Mindy remembered me right away,” she tells StyleCaster. A few weeks later, Moorjani was asked to screen test in front of Fisher and Kaling, who she met eight years ago as a guest star on The Mindy Project. Moorjani sent in a self tape for Kamala, Devi’s beautiful cousin from India who’s engaged to a man she’s never met. Like other cast members on the show, Moorjani auditioned through a casting call that Kaling tweeted to her millions of followers in May 2019. Richa Moorjani was in Los Angeles for eight years before she was cast in Never Have I Ever, Netflix’s new coming-of-age comedy by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher about a 15-year-old Indian-American girl, named Devi, who’s as uncool as one can expect from the lead of a teen rom com. ![]()
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