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Aasif Mandvi

Autor(a) de No Land's Man

4+ Works 191 Membros 12 Reviews

About the Author

Image credit: Amber Baldet / John Edwards 2008 Campaign & Wikimedia user Hekerui

Obras de Aasif Mandvi

No Land's Man (2014) 132 cópias
Sakina's restaurant (1998) 57 cópias
Shalimar the Clown 1 exemplar(es)
Today's Special 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Proposal [2009 film] (2009) — Actor — 379 cópias
The Last Airbender [2010 film] (2010) 169 cópias
The Internship [2013 film] (2013) — Actor — 101 cópias
Million Dollar Arm [2014 film] (2015) — Actor — 50 cópias
Mother's Day [2016 film] (2016) — Actor — 43 cópias
Spider-Man 2.1 [2007 film] (2007) — Actor — 35 cópias
Talk to Me: Monologue Plays (2004) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Eddie [1996 film] (2009) — Actor — 17 cópias

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Mandviwala, Aasif
Data de nascimento
1966-03-05
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
India (birth)
UK
USA
Ocupação
actor

Membros

Resenhas

The richly realized set of characters, portrayed in the audiobook by Mandvi himself, made this a good read/listen.
 
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Treebeard_404 | outras 5 resenhas | Jan 23, 2024 |
A series of autobiographical essays about Aasif Mandvi's life- his family, growing up in both Great Britain and Tampa, Florida, pursuing acting, etc.

I liked it ok, 3.5 rounded up to 4.

This was published in 2014, so it was a little jarring to see a brief cameo by Harvey Weinstein in the essay on Aasif's experience with Ismail Merchant for the making of The Mystic Masseur. No mention of the work on the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie, which is also just as well since that movie's probably better left forgotten...… (mais)
 
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Daumari | outras 5 resenhas | Dec 28, 2023 |
Summer 2019 - Audible original (May);

I knew the moment I skimmed the synopsis this piece would be for me. You can take the girl out her master dissertation of Jhumpa Lahiri, but you cannot take the things she learned to love and mourn there out of the girl.

This is another gorgeous declaration of the slings and arrows of diasporic hybrid identities of multiple generations trying to understand the world they've traveled to, and, also, the new world they've been born to, while straddling both the old world, the mixed world of their parents, and the native not-new land where they've grown up. I have such love already for these topics, and so I cried with the mother, felt the despair of the father, the burgeoning hope of the newly relocated, the betrayal of the current generation both in going back and in being present.

I advise this to anyone who understands how clearly the divides between generations of immigrants (and emigrants) can affect everything about a life, a person, a family, a country, culture, connection, and on and on. I still have a quiet, melancholy in my soul for this piece that will be there a while longer. It was superbly done.
… (mais)
 
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wanderlustlover | outras 5 resenhas | Dec 27, 2022 |
This is an audio that would do much better life. As other have stated Aasif's acting was great, however the play didn't quite hold up without the visual cues. I noticed the chapter headers were the POV character, however they weren't stated in the narration, as that would have understandably broken the flow of the play.
 
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preeti1sfr | outras 5 resenhas | Dec 5, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
4
Also by
8
Membros
191
Popularidade
#114,255
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Resenhas
12
ISBNs
6

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