In the opening sequence of “Definition Please,” 8-year-old Monica Chowdry is asked to spell one final word correctly before she can be declared the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The word: ...

Definition Please is a South Asian-American family drama about estranged siblings who reunite for their father’s death anniversary and rehash old issues. A festival darling and Insecure’s Sujata Day’s ...

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“Definition Please” stars Sujata Day and Ritesh Rajan spoke with NextShark about normalizing South Asian American stories and erasing the shame behind mental illness in celebration of the film’s ...

Sujata Day’s directorial debut “Definition Please” was released to Netflix on Jan. 21 after being acquired by Ava Duvernay’s film distribution and production collective ARRAY. Starring Day alongside ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I wanted to write the character that I wanted to play," said actor and filmmaker Sujata Day, who makes her feature directorial ...

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A grown-up spelling bee star who never left her hometown tries to make sense of the conflicts and challenges in her family. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

CNN — In the opening sequence of "Definition Please," 8-year-old Monica Chowdry is asked to spell one final word correctly before she can be declared the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The ...

Three years ago, Sujata Day decided to take the biggest leap of her career: she would direct and star in her own feature film, “Definition Please,” about a 20-something former spelling bee champion ...