Mindy Kaling's Netflix Comedy Tags Newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan For Lead Role | THR News - video Dailymotion

Mindy Kaling has filled the lead role for her untitled coming-of-age comedy at Netflix.

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00:00This day is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. This day is bananas, B-A-N-A-S.

00:06This day is totally bananas because Mindy Kaling's new Netflix comedy has found its

00:11leading lady. Newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has landed the leading role in the

00:16streaming platform's upcoming sitcom about a modern-day, first-generation South

00:20Asian-American teenage girl which is set to be inspired by Kaling's own childhood.

00:25Kaling will serve as a writer, executive producer and showrunner in the yet-to-be-named

00:29comedy and Netflix already gave it a straight-to-series order for 10 episodes.

00:34Ramakrishnan will be making her screen debut as Devi, an overachieving high school sophomore

00:39who has a short fuse that puts her in some sticky situations. Kaling originally called for

00:43an open casting call for a number of leading roles for the upcoming series and according

00:47to the actress herself, the casting notice drew in thousands of responses and close to

00:5215,000 audition tapes were sent in. At the time of her casting, Ramakrishnan had no

00:56representation but is now repped by Sandra Gillis of Premier Artist Management in Toronto.

01:01No word yet on who else Kaling has casted in the series and although a release date has yet

01:06to be set, the show is currently in pre-production and is set to shoot in L.A.

01:09For more on Mindy's new Netflix series and more casting updates head over to THR.com

01:14and until next time for The Hollywood Reporter News I'm Neha Joy.