Actor and former White House staffer Kal Penn is known to many as a prolific comedy actor and rightly so. Many of us have laughed our lungs out watching him in the stoner comedy H ...

Mira Nair's film, The Namesake, gained renewed attention when she shared that her son, Zohran Mamdani, played a crucial role in casting Kal Penn as Gogol. Zohran, as a teenager, advocated for Penn ...

Penn, also an author, TV show host and former White House staffer, was in conversation with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, ...

So, I’ll go with Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.” During the interaction, Kal Penn also spoke about how he got the role in The Namesake. “I had personally written to Mira Nair asking her to audition ...

Kal Penn felt the heat while he was shooting "The Namesake." "It was hotter than we made it seem," Penn says of the segments of the film that were shot in Calcutta. " 'Cause when it really is 120 ...

We are Indian."), preferring him as a doctor or engineer. However, having seen Mira Nair's 1992 film Mississippi Masala and witnessing what an Indian director and stars could achieve, Penn ...

The 47-year-old actor also reflected on his influences, citing Hollywood icons Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, along with filmmaker Mira Nair. He credited Nair’s Mississippi Masala as an ...

Next thing she knows, Penn's begging her himself. "I get this very beautiful letter from Kal, like a couple of months later, saying, 'You know, I'm an actor because of you.' ...