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Aasif Mandvi

  1. At the Movies
    Aasif Mandvi’s Fictional Restaurant Tonight, Helmant Mathur’s RealThe state of Indian cuisine in America.
  2. At the Movies
    Watch a Trailer for Aasif Mandvi’s Masala Film, Today’sIt was filmed in Jackson Heights, Queens.
  3. At the Movies
    Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi Takes Jackson Heights to HollywoodHe stars in a new film, ‘Today’s Special.’
  4. The New York Diet
    Aasif Mandvi Eats Steak on the Set of ‘The Daily Show’ Aside from being a regular correspondent on The Daily Show, Aasif Mandvi is a prominent actor and has co-written a film Seven to the Palace. Loosely based on his Obie-winning play, Sakina’s Restaurant, and set partly in a Jackson Heights eatery, it deals with a chef’s relationship to food: “Indian cuisine has a lot to do with how you’re feeling,” says Mandvi. “It comes out of a tradition of a pinch of this, and a dash of that.” Though Mandvi played a pizza-parlor owner in Spider-Man 2 (and then in a Dominos commercial), he doesn’t eat much of the stuff himself. So what does he eat? Over to you, Aasif…