He saw that and he reached out and offered to help us develop it,” she said. “Kal Penn came onboard a few years ago when Surina and I produced this short film to show the world what something like this could look like. But the collaboration that was extra special for Chandra was working with Kal Penn, an Indian American actor she admired from afar. The pair assembled an all-star cast of their friends and connections for the film, including Chris Parnell, Tituss Burgess, Richa Moorjani, Ravi Patel, Chris Geere, Desmond Chiam, and Lilly Singh. It’s kind of spoon-feeding the ridiculousness of how this isn’t mainstream yet but doing it in a very digestible way.” Melanie Chandra, Kal Penn and Surina Jindal “It’s so funny that we have a white guy in the movie mansplaining it. “People have that episode of The Office to point to and say, ‘Oh, Diwali is the Indian Halloween!’ That just carries forward and we want people to know it’s more than that,” Jindal told Deadline. But Chandra and Jindal want audiences to know the holiday is more than that. The movie special celebrates the Festival of Lights which became more widely known as “Indian Halloween,” thanks to an episode of The Office that sees Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) attend a party thrown by the parents of Mindy Kalin’s character, Kelly. Melanie Chandra and Surina Jindal are celebrating Diwali as first-generation Indian Americans in Comedy Central’s Hot Mess Holiday, premiering on Saturday night.
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