Newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was plucked from an audition pool of 15,000 hopeful actresses to star in Mindy Kaling’s Netflix show, “Never Have I Ever.” When Kaling and co-creator Lang Fisher called to tell her she landed the widely coveted role, “I remember all that I said was, ‘That’s crazy!” Ramakrishnan, 18, tells The Post. “And my entire family was around — my mom, my dad, my brother, my grandma, my cousin who was staying with us from England, they were all screaming.” Premiering April 27 — and marking Kaling’s first show for the streamer — “Never Have I Ever” is a coming-of-age comedy following Devi, an Indian American teen girl living in California and navigating the ups and downs of high school.
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