When Hari Kondabolu, a comedian and filmmaker, encountered The Simpsons character Apu for the first time he was eight years old and thrilled to see someone like himself on TV. In the '90s, no one ...
LOS ANGELES (CNN) - If you've ever dreamed of writing a "Simpsons" episode, now may be your chance. Adi Shankar, the executive producer and showrunner for Netflix's "Castlevania," announced the "Apu ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Apu is not even a stereotype, that’s what everyone is missing out on,” said Shankar, who was born in India, in an interview with ...
Throughout the 1990s and until the mid-2000s, the most popular representation of a brown-skinned South Asian character on American soil was Apu Nahasapeemapetilon from the animated television series ...
If you've ever dreamed of writing a "Simpsons" episode, now may be your chance. Adi Shankar, the executive producer and showrunner for Netflix's "Castlevania," has announced the "Apu Screenwriting ...
As a child, my brother and I ran home from school every day so we wouldn’t miss any of our favorite shows. We watched PBS and Nickelodeon for hours with our eyes glued to the TV until our mom forced ...