" The Namesake" (Pre-Production) - 2006
  [Kal Penn as Gogol Ganguli ]

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.

 In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail -- the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase -- that opens whole worlds of emotion. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.

 Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves. The New York Times has praised Lahiri as "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." The Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity. ( The Summary of the Book)

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Man About Town" (Completed) - 2005
  [Kal Penn as .... ] - Unknown

Top Hollywood talent agent Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck) seems to have it all: a successful career, money, a beautiful wife. But he still feels like something is missing, and so he takes a journal writing class to explore his feelings. But when Jack learns his wife Nina (Rebecca Romijn) is cheating on him with his most important client his perfect life quickly starts to unravel. Things get even worse when Jack’s journal --which contains secrets that could ruin him personally and professionally -- is stolen by ambitious journalist Barbi (Bai Ling). Jack must fight back to hold on to everything he has fought so hard to win, and in doing so he finally achieves the self-insight he was looking for -and he realizes that only through family can he really find lasting happiness.

"VEGAS BABY " (Completed) - 2005

 It is an independent film, was written and directed by “Romeo Must Die” screenplay writer Eric Bernt. Cast also includes Vincent Pastore and Kathy Griffin. “The story is about five friends who go to Vegas for one buddy’s bachelor party—they plan the typically guy-oriented bachelor party activities, but something goes terribly wrong.

"Dancing in the twilight - 2005" (Completed) - 2005
  [Kal Penn as Sam] -

 Madhav (Matt) Singh (Eric Avari) is a tribute to the American Dream. Athletically handsome, he married his college sweetheart. Had a wonderful marriage, and a beautiful son. Started his own company, raised it from his garage to skyscraper. Everything was heading for the moon, then his wife, Jaishiree (Artee Patel), died. Now Matt must find the strength and desire to go on. His business partner (John Davies), son (Kal Penn) and son's girlfriend (Sheetal Sheth), and a friend from the past (Mimi Rogers), all weigh in on his tumultuous journey. A compelling and provocative love story, Inmates of the Heart follows Matt as he struggles to cope with his wife's untimely death, ultimately being catapulted towards the biggest choice of his life -- A choice proving that we all share a similar prison -- one we can never escape -- our hearts. [http://www.aimpress.com/inmates.htm]