(Image source from: Atlanta-based Janaki Tambe's 'Bad Indians' rocking the show!})
A brand new web sitcom, airing on YouTube every Wednesday, is casting light on a largely ignored aspect of Indian Americans: the "bad" Indians.
So who are these so-called condemned “bad” Indians? Are they convicts, defaulters, assaulters? Are they kidnappers, illiterate, or the ones not chasing the American Dream? Who are they — the burgeoning breed of “bad” Indians?
Well, this special sect of Indian Americans aren't criminals, but those Indians who couldn't care any less of becoming doctors or engineers, those who aren't married or married to Indians and those who are oblivious to existences of Bollywood mortals like Shah Rukh and Salman Khan.
Atlanta-based Janaki Tambe apparently knows these Indians well, and her new YouTube show, “Bad Indian,” is a black satire on the other side of desi life.
Just an episode old, “Bad Indian” orbs around the life of a fictionalized version of Tambe herself. The character is sacked off from her job and is forced to move back in with her parents in Atlanta.
Seeing her friends’ kids getting married, procreating, flourishing in cushy jobs and being top-notch, puts her at odds with her own parents, often comically. The show touches topics like arranged marriages, traditionalism versus modernity entertainingly.
In her latest interview with Huffington Post, Tambe told how she always wanted to make this sitcom, but apparently got no takers. So, instead of waiting , she decided to make it, writing, directing, producing and acting, all at once.
Tambe is a graduate with a double-major in mathematics and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2003. She attended the University of Southern California from 2004 to 2006, where she earned her Masters of Science degree in Operations Research Engineering.
She then got employed with Northrup Grumman, one of the leading government contracting companies in the US, as part of their “Missile Defense Division Xontech Systems.”
She worked there for three years before moving to Lockheed Martin, another leading military contractor, where she served on “Mission and Business Concepts” for almost five years. She quit her job in 2013.
For now, she is wholely and solely committed to her “Bad Indian,” a show that bears biographical tinges of Tambe’s own life. Although it's just one episode old, it looks promising. Only the following five installments of the show will likely reveal how good is Tambe's 'Bad Indian'.
Here is the link of the trailer of 'Bad Indians'. Watch out:
https://twitter.com/JanakiTambe
http://www.linkedin.com/in/janakitambe
AW: Suchorita Choudhury
