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Then at 4 years of age, I negotiated with my parents to coming to pick us up and take us back to the US. I wasn’t worried because I was born in the states, so I was a citizen, but told them to pack my younger brother, Binu, in a suitcase so we could sneak him in. Then we rented a house in Catskill, NY, I found a really good deal and it even came with a swimming pool that made the Hudson river look like the crystal-blue Caribbean waters. I learned to ride a bike there as well as linear algebra simultaneously. Then we moved to a house in Hudson, NY where it had an apple orchard and one cherry tree. My dad managed to lose control of the riding mower and run into the, yup, you guessed it, the one cherry tree. He survived. So did the tree. And the mower, until it caught on fire later and he and his neighbors had to use the water from my kiddie pool to put it out. I hadn’t really gained perspective then, I was thinking that losing the water from the kiddie pool would be expensive cause it took eons to fill up – I know, I was there.
I went to 1st grade at Greenport Elementary. I remember coloring some farmer boy and I obviously colored him brown while everyone else in the classroom was coloring theirs “flesh color” and kinda chuckling at my choice of color, but not at all in a mean-spirited way. I think that’s when I first realized that I could empathize with Dr. Spock while on Starship Enterprise – so that was my first Halloween costume.
Then my dad joined the USAF and got us stationed at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX when I was about 7. The main thing that I remember about that place was that there was a dead-rat smell that was coming from our front porch, my brother got pulled off of a tree by a bully, and we pissed the hell out of the neighbors when we were playing soccer (football for my cousins back in India) by kicking the crap out of the fence. Oh yeah, I also got my ass kicked for the first time by a big 4th grader named Robert at my school, Jackson Elementary. He also later stole some of my favorite Star Wars toys – that’s 2 for 2. And I also had my heart broken by a girl who didn’t know I existed. I remember she moved and I found out on the bus ride home from a friend. I was forced to walk and gloriously sing, ‘I’m all out of love’ by Air Supply to myself.
My dad got stationed at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, TX and he negotiated us to going with him. I was wondering what the logic was to move to a town where one of the biggest, if not theeeeee biggest tornado in the recorded-history of this world, had hit our house and had put the roof over my brother’s room three houses down in my soon to be best friend Ashley’s swimming pool. “Twister” the movie was based on that incident, so I connected with that, it was deep and touching and so was the movie. I had my first kiss in 6th grade with Ashley’s sister, Nicole while playing spin the bottle. However, it was just a peck. My brother scored and got to go to the “5 minutes in Heaven.” He and this girl went to the romantic-getaway – a laundry closet for five minutes. I got to peck-kiss three girls – man, talk about beginners luck. I raised the bar a little too high on my first hunt.
I moved to Austin, TX to start 10th grade at William B. Travis and talked the base-commander at Bergstrom AFB to assign my dad there so he could come with us. This was the first time I actually lived in an actual “city” that had traffic jams – if only my friends in the previous small towns could see me now. I grew my hair out about 2 feet and told my parents I wanted to move to LA to be a rockstar. After cussing and discussing for 6 months, I finally got them to let me move out here to SoCal. My negotiation skills were super-sharp by this point in my life that I got my mom to chauffer me out here in our van with no windows except for the front. Just as we crossed the Arizona border in the middle of a blistering summer, the air conditioner broke. Having long hair sucked at that one point in my life. But I got over it the second we crossed the mountains and got a taste of the coastal breeze.
Then I played lead guitar in a band. Band broke up. Went to GIT in Hollywood. Got side-tracked when I met some guy in a back alley who convinced me to go to medschool. No, wait, it was my vocal coach who suggested that. I guess that was just her polite way of saying that I sucked. So I went to MiraCosta ("Behold, The Coast!") College in Oceanside, took racquetball at Palomar with a 350 pound coach who could beat anyone without moving. Then transferred to UC San Diego. Started applying to med-school and realized – hey, I love theory, but I hate clinical – too many sick people moping around in a hospital. Floundered around for a couple of years personal training, day-trading, conning people into multilevel marketing schemes, and then got into filmmaking and the rest is in my bio on my site, but it’s not as seriously written as this fine piece of classic literature.
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THE TRIDENT
A martial arts film I acted in (and trained for 2 mos) was nominated for Best Short Action Sequence at the Action on Film Film Festival in Long Beach, CA.

It's written and directed by by Anurag Mehta (American Chai) and starring Aalok Mehta (American Chai), David Carradine (Kill Bill) and me.
Screened at the San Diego Asian Film Festival off of a 35mm print in all its glory in 450 seat theater... AWESOME!
It also screened in 4K at Sony Studios - that looked like a Viewmaster in motion - trippy!..
ROYAL KILL - kicked ass at AMC Theatres!!!
BoxOfficeMojo Ranks Indie Underdog ROYAL KILL #14 of 106 Movies as Per-Theater Average Beating Observe & Report, Dragonball, Watchmen, & more.
Stay tuned for DVD release.
ALL DRESSED UP Trailer I edited
Screened at Dances With Films Festival in Hollywood. More info at www.AllDressedUpmovie.com
Need editing done? Check out DesignAnu.com
WMUC RADIO INTERVIEW ON ACTING/FILMMAKING
Listen Here to my take on acting/filmmaking.
"CHA$E": SCI-FI CHANNEL's Show
I was on Episode 4: "Warehouse". So much fun - it was like The Matrix meets hide-and-seek! Felt 10 again!
"HOT GUYS WHO COOK" ON THE STYLE NETWORK
I serve up a dish of fish along with some psychobabble and metal guitarrrrr!
THE SPANISH GUITAR HOUR - webseries (Improv)
Come let Banderas and the ever popular Antonio please you the way no woman ever has. Ahhhh...
Buy The Spanish Guitar Hour merchandise at: www.TheSpanishGuitarHour.com
WESLIM - A cutting-edge reporter unveils something never before seen!
L.A. HIT (fka "L.A. TAKEDOWN")

Cast as the lead in L.A. TAKEDOWN, a feature film which landed international distribution.
6 SHOWS IN BEVERLY HILLS - 3 SOLD OUT!!!
Upcoming Preview Screenings:
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GIPPY GREWAL MUSIC VIDEO
Here's the second video of his I DP'd and directed. The encoding kinda sucks and has taken away the colors, but you get the idea. You can view the first one I did for him further down this page.
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27,000 DAYS


A film I acted in 27,000 DAYS WON the 2007 SXSW Film Fest in Austin, TX.
Get complete info at 27000DaysFilm.com
BTW, I designed and built this site. If you're interested in having a site built for you contact me.
WEDDING
I'm directing Wedding, a gripping shortfilm about two people at the ends of their ropes. Written and produced by Donn Swaby (Passions, G.I. Jane) and Roopashree Jeeavji. Starring Katia Bokor (The Shield) and Mark Berry (Blade: Trinity). DP'd by AFI grad Derek Fullagar. It's currently in post. Check back for updates.
Wedding Teaser
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PRESS
Here's the latest article on Roopa and me from Mathrubhumi, the Malayalam newspaper, about people (mostly actors/filmmakers) living outside India. It also includes Naveen Andrews (Lost), Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes), Archie Punjabi (Bend it Like Beckhham), etc.
GIPPY GREWAL & YUDHVIR MANAK - MUSIC VIDEO
I just shot & directed this video for Gippy Grewal and Yudhvir Manak.
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LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
You can see me in the movie (and the trailer) Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World now on DVD and currently running on Cinemax &/or HBO. I'm driving Albert Brooks and Kavi Raz around in a truck.
THE SLEEPING - MUSIC VIDEO

I just acted in a music video for the song Don't Hold Back (on my profile currently) by The Sleeping. It was directed by Adam Thomson and shot by Sean Desmond - the same duo who did A Girl And A Gun a couple of years ago that I was in. The shoot, once again, rocked!
THREE-FIFTY



Here's a film Three-Fifty, written & directed by Maurice Chauvet (screenwriter, Owning Mahowny starring Philip Seymour Hoffman) that's on the festival circuit. I edited this trailer and am helping out with the marketing of it. Please add Three-Fifty to your friends.
Three-Fifty The Movie
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TRADE OFFS
My first feature Trade Offs (actor/producer) is now on Netflix & Blockbuster.
DORRYWOOD.
Written & Directed by me. Starring Roopashree Jeevaji. Music composed by RobGironda.com & CarrieWeiland.com. Matt Stedman helped shoot it.
DORRYWOOD - A Musical Epic
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INTERMINAL
writer/producer
INTERMINAL Trailer
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Check out some the projects I've worked on (act/write/direct/edit/etc):
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Roopashree Jeevaji
Melinda Augustina From film
Kiva: LoansThatchangelives
Greta Valenti
Tara Donovan
Chad Zuber
C. Luis Palacio
Nausheen Dadabhoy
Sridhar Maruvada
Jaimyon Parker
Daeg Faerch
nazanin boniadi
Adam Thomson
Maurice Wright
Moises Aguilar
Jason Solowsky
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