Nerdy, dark-skinned Indian girls do not usually get to be the heroine in Hollywood romantic comedies.
Taking on that "colourism" and also rewriting cliches about nerds are why comedy star Mindy Kaling created Never Have I Ever - a Netflix show about the romantic misadventures of an Indian-American teenager, Devi, who lives with her family in Los Angeles.
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