{"id":181792,"date":"2025-07-20T05:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/maitreyi-ramakrishnan-joins-hasan-minhaj-in-upcoming-netflix-bollywood-movie-reunites-with-director-lena-khan\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T05:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:47:19","slug":"maitreyi-ramakrishnan-joins-hasan-minhaj-in-upcoming-netflix-bollywood-movie-reunites-with-director-lena-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/maitreyi-ramakrishnan-joins-hasan-minhaj-in-upcoming-netflix-bollywood-movie-reunites-with-director-lena-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Joins Hasan Minhaj In Upcoming Netflix Bollywood Movie, Reunites With Director Lena Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/maitreyi-ramakrishnan\/\" title=\"Maitreyi Ramakrishnan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Maitreyi Ramakrishnan<\/strong><\/a> is adding another film to her resume!<\/p>\n<p>It was recently announced that the 23-year-old <em>Never Have I Ever<\/em> star will return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/netflix\/\" title=\"Netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Netflix<\/strong><\/a> in a Bollywood movie titled <em>Best of the Best<\/em>, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/maitreyi-ramakrishnan-best-of-the-best-hasan-minhaj-1236463276\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/maitreyi-ramakrishnan-best-of-the-best-hasan-minhaj-1236463276\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>She joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/hasan-minhaj\/\" title=\"Hasan Minhaj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hasan Minhaj<\/strong><\/a> in the upcoming film, and it also reunites her with director <strong>Lena Khan<\/strong>, who directed several episodes of <em>Never Have I Ever<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2127361\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also new to the cast is <strong>Priyanka Kedia<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Best of the Best <\/em>was co-written by <strong>Hasan<\/strong> and <strong>Prashanth Venkataramanujam<\/strong>, and follows \u201ctwo childhood best friends, Maya and Anjali, who join their college\u2019s competitive Bollywood dance team only to discover that the road to winning the national championship is far more raucous and cutthroat than they ever imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cmy body is sore but my heart is full\ud83d\udc97\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffe,\u201d <strong>Maitreyi <\/strong>shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMN8gMhxWFV\/?img_index=1\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMN8gMhxWFV\/?img_index=1&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, adding, \u201calso, my character is tamil of srilankan origin. hope yall enjoy\ud83d\udc97\ud83e\udee1\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priyanka<\/strong> added on her own<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMN8gfupx4N\/?img_index=1\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMN8gfupx4N\/?img_index=1&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> account<\/a>, \u201cthe most surreal announcement i never could have imagined i\u2019d get to make. from the bottom of my heart thank you thank you thank you for making that little girl\u2019s (and her parents\u2019) dreams come true. this is going to be such an insanely special one. get ready!!!!!!!!!!!! \ud83e\udd79\u2764\ufe0f P.S. Mama, Pops, Hirshie @kedia_hv this one is for you \u2764\ufe0f\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t know, <strong>Maitreyi<\/strong> will next be seen on the big screen in the upcoming <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/06\/06\/new-freakier-friday-trailer-explains-how-chad-michael-murrays-jake-fits-into-the-sequel-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freakier Friday<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/07\/20\/maitreyi-ramakrishnan-joins-hasan-minhaj-in-upcoming-netflix-bollywood-movie-reunites-with-director-lena-khan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is adding another film to her resume! It was recently announced that the 23-year-old Never Have I Ever star will return to Netflix in a Bollywood movie titled Best of the Best, according to Variety. She joins Hasan Minhaj in the upcoming film, and it also reunites her with director Lena Khan, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}