‘Life of Pi’s Suraj Sharma, ‘Tom & Jerry’s Pallavi Sharda in Netflix’s ‘Wedding Season’: Watch First Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

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Naman Ramachandran Global Indian origin actors Pallavi Sharda (“Tom & Jerry,” “Lion”) and Suraj Sharma (“Life of Pi,” “How I Met Your Father”) star in Netflix romantic comedy “Wedding Season,” directed by “Shanghai Noon” and “Showtime” filmmaker Tom Dey.Variety has secured access to an exclusive clip from the film, which is produced by Imagine Entertainment, in association with Jax Media and Samosa Stories.

The lead producer is Swati Shetty, who previously had senior management stints with Imagine, Netflix and Disney India and produced “Umrika,” starring Sharma, which won awards at Sundance, Palm Springs and Cairo.As a studio executive, Shetty shepherded Disney India’s first live action film “Do Dooni Char,” and Netflix’s “Love Per Square Foot,” “Rajma Chawal” and “Lust Stories.” “All these were films that I pushed for and championed from the studio side — so clearly, this is not the first in that sense,” Shetty told Variety. “I love these kinds of films.

Love is a universal emotion. Everybody connects with love, everybody lives for love, which is one of the reasons these films become more mainstream and more accessible to the audience.” In the film, pressured by their parents to find spouses, Indian Americans Asha (Sharda) and Ravi (Sharma) pretend to date in order to survive a summer of weddings — but find themselves falling for each other as they struggle to balance who they are with who their parents want them to be.

It is written by Shiwani Srivastava, who was runner-up at the 2018 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Competition. Ryan M. Murphy and John Rhodes brought the script to Netflix, who reached out to Shetty.