American Desi

American Desi
DVD cover
Directed byPiyush Dinker Pandya
Written byPiyush Dinker Pandya
Produced byDeep Katdare
Cyrus E. Koewing
Gitesh Pandya
Piyush Dinker Pandya
StarringDeep Katdare
Purva Bedi
Release dates
  • 16 March 2001 (2001-03-16) (USA)
  • 27 September 2002 (2002-09-27) (India)
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Running time
100 minutes
CountriesUnited States
India
LanguagesEnglish
Hindi
Budget$250,000[3]
Box office$1.1 million[4]

American Desi is a 2001 Indian-American comedy film. It is notable for featuring many prominent South Asian American actors and features an a cappella version by Penn Masala of Nazia Hassan's classic "Aap Jaisa Koi", originally from the Indian film Qurbani. The term Desi in the title refers to the people and cultures of the Indian subcontinent.[5]

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  2. ^ "American Desi (2001) - Release Info - IMDb". IMDb. 2022-05-28. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  3. ^ "American Desi (2001) - Financial Information". The Numbers.
  4. ^ "American Desi (2001) - International Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  5. ^ "American Desi (2001)". imdb.com. Retrieved 29 November 2013.