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 Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff star in Roshan Sethi's queer love story between a reserved Indian-American doctor and a white photographer who unexpectedly share a culture. The title gem isn't exactly who you'd expect in "A Nice Indian Boy," a romantic comedy that brings a welcome queer perspective to that substantial subgenre of love stories entangled in Indian social mores and intergenerational family politics. In many films of this ilk, Naveen (Karan Soni) would be the ideal match for a female lead: handsome, articulate, and a practicing physician. His homosexuality casts him in the less traditionally masculine role of the man seeking a suitor; that his "nice Indian boy" is actually Jay (Jonathan Groff), a white man raised in Naveen's culture, is the most complicating factor in director Roshan Sethi's brilliant and generous, if overly tidy, third feature. Director: Roshan Sethi Writers: Eric Randall, Madhuri Shekar Stars: Karan Soni, Jonathan G...