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Priyanka Kedia on Netflix Best of the Best role
Hindustan Times··3d ago
British-Indian actor Priyanka Kedia, 24, said Netflix's Best of the Best treats South Asian identity as character background rather than a punchline. She stars alongside Never Have I Ever actor Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in the Hasan Minhaj-written collegiate dance comedy directed by Lena Khan. Kedia trained in Bharatanatyam so that the film's mudras would read accurately on screen.
Prism
What It Means For You
- The film is a coming-of-age comedy set in competitive collegiate Bollywood-fusion dance.
- Kedia said South Asian characters should be allowed messiness and complexity on screen.
- She previously appeared in Everything to Me (2024) and Disclosure Day.
What's Happening
- Kedia told Hindustan Times the cast wanted identity kept off the punchline track.
- Hasan Minhaj wrote the film with Prashanth Venkataramanujam from diaspora experience in the US.
- A choreography team monitored mudras closely because neither lead was classically trained.
How the Dance Training Worked
- Kedia said she danced a little growing up but was not classically trained before the shoot.
- The production treated accurate mudras as essential to representing the dance form.
- She called the training a beautiful experience shared with co-star Ramakrishnan.
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