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Can Chris Kattan be a Bollywood Hero?

By Mike Miliard

Boston Phoenix | August 7, 2009

Here's something Chris Kattan probably rarely hears in real life: "In Night at the Roxbury, you were awesome!" Such, however, is the encomium proffered by two young Indian fans in IFC's new mini-series Bollywood Hero, which finds the former SNL cast member traveling to the subcontinent to star in a saffron-colored, jasmine-scented music-and-dance extravaganza.

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Tags: Maya Rudolph, Celebrity News, Bollywood Hero, Diederik Van Rooijen, Fred Astaire, Julian Sands, Michael Penn, Keanu Reeves, movies, television, Saturday Night Live, Richard Gere, Entertainment

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