While looking for information about Meet the Patels, the first film we’ll watch, I came across this short interview with one of the directors, Ravi Patel. In it, he says some interesting things in response to Aziz Ansari’s public statements about being a South Asian actor in the US.

Master of None’s Ravi Patel on Doing the Infamous Indian Accent and the Second Coming of Aziz Ansari
By Mallika Rao

Ravi Patel’s first role as a call-center operator in Michael Bay’s Transformers had him working the notorious “Apu” accent. Eight years on and the actor is in the midst of his own transformation, from token Indian to charming disruptor. Patel’s splashy 2015 documentary (and soon, feature film) Meet the Patels features his actual family weighing in as he tries to find a wife the vintage, arranged way. He parlayed that naturalism into TV ubiquity of a kind typically elusive to brown men in Hollywood: as an unaccented sous chef on the ABC comedy Grandfathered, and a struggling, lovable — and very real — Indian-American actor on Aziz Ansari’s bingeable new comedy, Master of None.

Vulture recently talked to Patel about working with Ansari, marriage, and his conflicted relationship with the infamous accent.

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