Outsourced co-star Sacha Dhawan settles the Manmeet issue! PODCAST INTERVIEW

Today’s Guest: Sacha Dhawan, actor, “Outsourced”

 

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Sacha Dhawan, star of NBC's "Outsourced"
Sacha Dhawan, star of NBC’s “Outsourced”

Network television has given us some truly memorable character names.

Dobie Gillis.

Gilligan.

Peter Tork.

Fonzie.

But one from this season has them all beet. Headsets down, it’s “Manmeet” on NBC’s “Outsourced.”

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Get it? He’s Man-meat!

SACHA DHAWAN podcast excerpt: “What ‘Outsourced’ is doing is bringing the West and East together through these characters, who are believable and lovable at the same time.”

My guess, however, is that what seemed like a fall-down funny idea in the writer’s room before the season started never really gained the expected traction after the first episode when Manmeet’s new American boss, Todd Dempsey, finds it hysterical but none of the Indian employees understands what’s so funny.

Manmeet – as played by Sacha Dhawan – is simply too gentle and sweet a character to keep clobbering with the same one-note joke. As the series developed, the writers have found much better uses for his talents.

Of all the crazy characters on “Outsourced” – which airs Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. after “30 Rock” – Manmeet is the most grounded, the most Indian “Average Joe” on the show. He is its Jim Halpert (“The Office”) or Jeff Winger (“Community”), providing laughs yet balance in the portrayal of India’s call center employees at Mid America Novelties.

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More Mr. Media Interviews with the cast of NBC’s Outsourced: Parvesh CheenaDiedrich BaderBen RappaportRizwan Manji’s first appearance on Mr. MediaRizwan Manji’s second appearance on Mr. Media

Mr. Media video interview with actress Noureen DeWulf before Outsourced

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Sacha Dhawan plays the character “Manmeet” on the NBC sitcom “Outsourced”


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