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‘Wedding Season’ Star Pallavi Sharda on Why She Left Her Native Australia for a Bollywood Career

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorPallavi Sharda didn’t have to look far to get into character for “Wedding Season.” The Australian actor and dancer stars in the Netflix rom-com as Asha, a New Jersey-raised attorney being pressured by her Indian parents to find a man and get married.

To get them off her back, she convinces one of her set-ups (Suraj Sharma) to pretend that they’re dating during a summer wedding season.“When I read the script, I just thought, ‘I know this story,’” says Sharda, who is best known for her Bollywood career and television work in Australia. “I know this woman.

I have friends that are this woman. I have family who grew up in Jersey, like a lot of my cousins are from this part of the world.

And my grandparents migrated to the U.S. in the 1980s. All of my maternal cousins are Indian Americans.” I caught up with Sharda from her native Australia as she was getting ready to fly to the U.S.

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