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Poorna Jagannathan is known for making TV fans laugh and cry in equal measure. As Nalini on Mindy Kaling’s Netflix hit Never Have I Ever, the 52-year-old actress played a strict and caring ...

Poorna Jagannathan “couldn’t find” inspiration for her recent mob boss character, Lucky from Deli Boys, in any of her normal prep work. "I couldn't find her because strong women like that, they're not ...

The “Deli Boys” would be nowhere without Lucky Auntie. Although the new Onyx Collective comedy focuses on Pakistani American brothers Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj (Saagar Shaikh), the duo would be ...

Above all else, Lucky needed to be funny, and to pull that off, Jagannathan reveals, "I look at a character, and I look at what's already on the page in terms of what she says and her actions, and ...

There is a moment, unscripted, in Hulu’s “Deli Boys,” in which Poorna Jagannathan and Tan France start cursing at each other in Urdu. “It really made us think, when we’re at our most primal, these two ...

Saagar Shaikh, Asif Ali, Poorna Jagannathan and Brian George in "Deli Boys" (Hulu) “Deli Boys” plunges a pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers (Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh) into a life of crime, ...

*In Hulu’s “Deli Boys,” Poorna Jagannathan commands the screen as Lucky Auntie, a sharp-witted, take-no-prisoners force who pulls two clueless brothers into the criminal underworld. “After their ...

Poorna Jagannathan (Deli Boys, Lanterns) and Gary Carr (Genius: MLK/X, The Peripheral) are the latest stars cast in the Apple TV+ and A+E Studios as-yet-untitled series based on the bestselling crime ...

In a television landscape saturated with South Asian tropes — think: dutiful doctor, tech nerd, spiritual guru, bearded terrorist — Hulu’s Deli Boys arrives like a shot of spice-infused adrenaline.

Is anyone on TV having more fun than Poorna Jagannathan right now? She stars in the Hulu comedy Deli Boys from Abdullah Saeed (out March 6), in which two Pakistani American brothers inherit their late ...

Thursday night’s premiere event included a red carpet, private screening, Bollywood dancers and a curated menu of cocktails and South Asian cuisine. By Brande Victorian Deputy Awards Editor “Our ...