Check out this Obama PSA 2012 – We Are America, directed by Samrat Chakrabarti

Samrat Chakrabarti © Lia Chang

Samrat Chakrabarti © Lia Chang


Samrat Chakrabarti gathered a few of his friends including Sheetal Sheth, Debargo Sanyal, Reshma Shetty, Reena Shah, Sanjiv Jhaveri and Sarita Choudhury to appear in Obama PSA 2012 – We Are America, a video conceived and directed by Chakrabarti.

Presented by the South Asian Community United (SACU), the video was produced by Tim Dutta, and shot and edited by Vishesh Sharma. Paintbrush, a song composed and performed by Samrat Chakrabarti, with Arun Ramamurthy on Indian Violin and Joshua Geisler on Indian Flute, is featured on the soundtrack of the video.

A message from the South Asian Community United (SACU)

Since President Obama’s election in 2008, he’s worked hard to ensure that our country is on the right path for the South Asian American community and all Americans. We must continue what President Obama started.

Cuz…
WE ARE AMERICA and AMERICA IS US
The Next Four Years

Samrat Chakrabarti portrays Wee Willie Winkie, in Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, based on Salman Rushdie’s book by the same name, and co-stars with Seema Biswas, Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Rajat Kapoor, Soha Ali Khan, Rahul Bose, Sarita Choudhury, Siddharth, Shriya, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Darsheel Safary.

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Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor Hosts 1st Annual Varli Culinary Awards with Co-hosts Manu Narayan and Pooja Kumar in New York on November 15, 2012
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Lia Chang. Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Lia Chang. Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography


Lia Chang is an actor, a performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist.
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