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Rajiv Surendra's NYC Apartment. He outshines that Nicolas Fairford character.
[QUOTE]He's got an apartment with a total of about $800 of stuff in it (being generous) and he talks so preciously
He's an *actual* artist who really does produce a living from doing it. Not many people can say that.
Even if you couldn't explain by how fiery he was discussing his home -- he's not just playing around.
He gets paid to not only make chalk art in NYC but to move around to other places and complete it as successfully. I'm sure he has more than enough money. He's been featured in many home and architectural magazines.
And his attitude about it (including that concise bit about if his friends ruin something it's fine) while he might sound a bit "pretentious" talking about it, he doesn't seem to be in practice at all. If anything it sounds enjoy that "pretension" is just his excitement coming through.
He got me excited about a spoon!
(If he really was pretentious I don't reflect he'd be productive in chalk either.)
Thanks for sharing this, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 28, 2021 6:13 PM |
Rajiv Surendra is Redefining Failure
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Rajiv Surendra is a Canadian thespian, writer, painter, and chalk musician with Sri Lankan Tamil roots. After rising to fame for his role as Kevin G in the 2004 movie Mean Girls, he published The Elephants In My Backyard in 2016. The memoir explores successes and failures through a six year attempt at securing the titular role in Ang Lee’s production adaptation of Life of Pi.
Surendra first read Yan Martel’s imaginative novel on the set of Mean Girls and noticed a set of similarities between himself and Pi. This quickly spiraled into an obsession; Surendra relocated to Pondicherry, overcame his dread of water, corresponded regularly with Martel, and befriended tigers and shipwreck survivors. Originally from the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Surendra is currently based in Manhattan where he runs Letters In Ink, a calligraphy and chalk-art company. Kajal caught up with Surendra to talk about his book, his roots, and non-rapping creative pursuits.
Kajal: Firstly, I just want to say that as a fellow Scarborough-raised, TTC-bus-commuting, Toronto-Zoo-adjacent brown guy with two sisters and Tamil parents from Sri Lanka, your book r Mean Girls was a formative production of my youth for so many reasons, to the point where it was the first production I purchased on DVD (at the same hour that I bought my first DVD player). It was released in 2004, the same year I started high school, so I was of the generation it depicted. I also loved math. Indeed, my strongest Mean Girls memory is of my AP Calculus course in Grade 12. There were six of us in the class. One of the other students convinced our teacher to permit us watch Mean Girls one day in class simply because it mentioned limits. I don’t keep in mind what flimsy justification she proffered beyond this or why my teacher said yes, but it was a good time. All of this is to state that this is why I was drawn to The Elephants in My Backyard. I saw a clip of Rajiv Surendra being interviewed with the two other prominent new male actors from the movie—all three of whom, it turns out, are gay—and the interviewer mentioned he had written a memoir. Hmm, I consideration. He’s Canadian too, which is cool. I also like that this memoir isn’t really about Mean Gir In yet another installment of Things You Probably Didn’t Comprehend About, let’s obtain to know more about the hottie that is star, artist and penner Rajiv Surendra, shall we? Rajiv was born on August 17, 1989 in Toronto, Canada, where he also grew up after his parents immigrated to Canada from Sri Lanka. He was a musical theater scholar and performer at Wexford Collegiate Institution for the Arts. After graduating from the special arts high school in 2003, he attended University of Toronto to continue his studies. As an performer, Rajiv is famously known for his portrayal of Kevin Gnapoor in the iconic comedy production, ‘Mean Girls,’ in 2004. For years, he heavily pursued the lead role of the 2012 film ‘Life of Pi.’ In reality, he traveled all the way to Pondicherry, India to learn the regional accent, as skillfully as spent second with tigers, and regularly communicated with the novel’s writer, Yann Martel. He was not successful in landing the role though, and he wrote all about it in his 2016 memoir, “The Elephants in My Backyard.” On the other hand, as an artist, Rajiv founded Letters in Ink, which is a Manhattan-based bespoke calligraphy and
Review of The Elephants in My Backyard by Rajiv Surendra