Desis to look out for on primetime TV (Update)
By Santosh at 14 January, 2009, 11:13 pm 
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DJ Ravi Drums joins Howie Mandel of “Deal or no Deal” fame on a new Punked-style reality show “Howie Do It”, which premiered January 9th, 2009. [TopNews.in]
Ravi is to Mandel as Paul Shaffer is to David Letterman. I watched a couple of clips of “Howie do it” on YouTube and found them largely not funny. But DJ Ravi Drums shows off his mad drums skillz on the clip above.
Other desis to watch out for:
Kunal Nayyar as Rajesh Koothrappali, Ph.D. on CBS’s “Big Bang Theory”. Rajesh (Kunal) plays a socially awkward geek who has extreme anxiety bouts in the company of women, gets constantly pestered by his parents via webcam to find a “good Indian girl” and more recently got schooled by fellow geek, Sheldon, on his knowledge of Bollywood heroines. Big Bang is one of the under rated and funnier sitcoms. Definitely worth a dekko if you haven’t yet.
Sendhil Ramamurthy a.k.a Mohinder Suresh on NBC’s “Heroes”. Check out blogger Runa’s impassioned plea to save Sendhil’s character from irrelevance.
We also have it on good authority *** cough previews cough *** that at least 1 if not 2 desis could make it to the Hollywood round of American Idol. Have I missed any?Primetime TV seems to be shaping up for a brown revolution of sorts.
Have I missed any?
Update: Sidhu and Mainson have pointed out a couple more.
Adhir Kalyan as Dr. Raj Paresh, a recurring character on Nip/Tuck
Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah on Lost
I forgot to mention, Navi Rawat as Amita Ramanujan, in the scientific thriller drama Numb3rs
Also, joining in this week is Anoop Desai on American Idol. Anoop made it to the Hollywood round guaranteeing at least one more appearance on AI.
Runa points to:
Parminder Nagra as Dr.Neela Rasgotra on ER
Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor on The Office
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I saw Dr. Rajesh Paresh on ‘Nip Tuck’ – a medical wizard kid with an uncontrollable mouth, he is thame kid from ‘Aliens in America’..
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Naveen Andrews on LOST!
Ravi used to play the drum for us dance students in FLA. He had hair down to his waist.
Sidhu/Mainson,
I updated the post.
Bess,
Interesting. Do you know if he grew up here in Fla or went to school here?
Although not on Prime Time, there is a desi dude on the “Mall Cop” movie. They keep showing him in the ad’s.
Not a big fan of the accent though…
Santosh, Ravi is from Tampa. He used to play in a metal band Crimson Glory (hehe) – this was the early 90’s. Tampa is known for its metal bands ; )
Proof!
Hey why no love for the ladies?
Parminder Nagra as Dr.Neela on ER?
Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor on The office?
Bess,
Thanks for the interesting tidbits!
Runa,
ER is still on TV?
I updated the list.