Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Booty (2024)

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Is maitreyi Ramakrishnan Indian in real life? ›

Early life and education

Ramakrishnan was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. She was born to Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu parents who immigrated to Canada as refugees due to the Sri Lankan Civil War. She identifies herself as Tamil Canadian rather than Sri Lankan.

Thankfully, production was really helpful in helping me take the harp home." Ramakrishnan has been playing Devi Vishwakumar since the show's April 2020 premiere. The honor student is a skilled harpist — and the actress, herself, actually learned how to play the instrument for the role.

The dress, a piece from Zuhair Murad's spring-summer 2024 ready-to-wear collection, brought the glamour Oscars night requires. Ramakrishnan kept it simple with her accessories, wearing a pair of diamond drop-down earrings with her signature nose ring.

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi Vishwakumar, initially a 15-year-old high school sophom*ore who wants to improve her life and harbors feelings for both Paxton Hall-Yoshida and Ben Gross. She is based on the show's creator, Mindy Kaling.

And the one thing that many Indians share is that they all are connected to their languages or culture. Throughout the whole show, Devi's entire Tamil family speaks one word of Tamil and barely shows Tamil cuisine. Instead, the show focuses on the North Indian culture which has no relation to Devi or her family.

While Devi and Ben wind up together in the end, there's still room for a final romantic moment between her and Paxton.

According to several media reports, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan's net worth sums up to USD 500,000 (INR 4 crore approx.). TMZ recently reported that the young actress makes USD 20,000 (INR 16 lakh approx.) per episode of Never Have I Ever. She earned USD 200,000 (INR 1 crore approx.)

The harp's crystalline and delicate tones, as well as its graceful shape, will emphasize the femininity of the woman playing it. Not to mention that it gives the harpist a definite air of dignity and nobility.

In the Hindu religion, piercing the nose is seen as a way of honoring the Hindu Goddess of marriage, Parvathi. Hindu women following this tradition will get their noses pierced around the age of 16, which is seen as the age a woman can be married.

A conversation with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan of the Netflix comedy series “Never Have I Ever” about her Tamil Canadian identity, having Mindy Kaling as a boss and breaking ground by playing a flawed Asian American lead on TV.

How did maitreyi Ramakrishnan audition for Never Have I Ever? ›

“Yeah…so, I heard about it because my best friend sent me the audition, like tweets that Mindy [Kaling] put out. So she's the one who sent it to me and said like, 'Yo, we should do this. ' We honestly just did it to like, have fun.

Devi and Paxton's first kiss

While they're parked by Devi's front door, Paxton kisses Devi right as she's about to leave. Not only is this Devi's first kiss, but it's also with the boy she has long been fantasizing about.

On season one of the Netflix series, Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) is a 16-year-old high-school sophom*ore and her crush, Paxton (Darren Barnet), is in the grade above her. But in real life, the actors are much farther apart in age. When the show premiered in 2020, Ramakrishnan was 18 and Barnet was 29.

Devi Vishwakumar, a first-generation Indian-American teenager, serves as the show's protagonist as she navigates high school in the wake of her father's untimely death.

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Devi being born and brought up in California and never having visited India makes her prone to cultural appropriation because apparently, that is what she was surrounded with her entire life.

Devi Vishwakumar is the protagonist of Never Have I Ever. She is a seventeen-year-old Indian-American, previously known as an overachieving high school girl, who had a short fuse that often landed her into difficult situations at times.