{"id":539,"date":"2004-10-13T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=539"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"namesake_castin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/13\/namesake_castin\/","title":{"rendered":"Namesake Casting Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mira Nair’s Next venture, the making of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Namesake onto celluloid, is holding a casting call for Bengali\/South Asian actors.<\/p>\n\n

Shooting in Calcutta and NYC December\/February 2004 – 2005.<\/p>\n\n

Seeking the following roles:\nGOGOL – 4-7 years old to play 4. Born in the United States, his parents are\nfrom Calcutta. Speaks English and Bengali<\/p>\n\n

GOGOL – 16-21 years old to play 17. Born in the United States, his parents\nare from Calcutta. Speaks English and Bengali.<\/p>\n\n

SONIA – 12-15 years old to play 13. Born in the United States, her parents\nare from Calcutta. Speaks English.<\/p>\n\n

MOUSHUMI – 15-20 years old to play 16. Plump and intelligent. Has a British\naccent.<\/p>\n\n

If INTERESTED IN BEING CONSIDERED FOR THIS FILM, please send snapshot and letter (non-returnable) to: \n Cindy Tolan\n “The Namesake” Casting Search\n 145 Sixth Avenue, 7th Fl.\n New York, NY 10013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mira Nair’s Next venture, the making of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Namesake onto celluloid, is holding a casting call for Bengali\/South Asian actors. Shooting in Calcutta and NYC December\/February 2004 – 2005. Seeking the following roles: GOGOL – 4-7 years old to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}