‘A Nice Indian Boy’s Jonathan Groff & Karan Soni On Why Bollywood “Feels So Gay” & The “Really F—ing Special” Behind-The-Scenes Love Story

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Although the future of same-sex marriage feels unclear in the U.S., wedding bells are ringing at the theaters this spring. Ahead of the release of A Nice Indian Boy, now playing in the U.S.

and Canada (preceding Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet remake’s April 18 release), stars Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni spoke to Deadline about why Bollywood “feels so gay” and what made the film “so fucking special.” Based on Madhuri Shekar’s play, A Nice Indian Boy stars Soni as Naveen Gavaskar, a gay Indian-American doctor who has never brought a boyfriend home, despite his parents and sister’s outward acceptance of him.

While at temple, Naveen sparks an unexpected romance with Jay Kurundkar (Groff), a white photographer who was raised by two adopted Indian parents.

Following their meet-cute, the pair is in for quite the culture shock as Naveen’s new boyfriend teaches him to love every part of himself while they plan their big gay Indian wedding with his family. “I always find it interesting that Indian-American people, because our culture is so rich, they’re always stuck between how American they were and how Indian they should be,” explained Soni. “And a lot of them, early in life, because of bullying or whatever from stories I’ve heard, would shun the Indian part of their culture to assimilate more.