Cosmopolitan (film) - Cast and Characters

Cast and Characters

• Roshan Seth – Gopal, a retired middle-aged Indian immigrant, who has been in America 20 years, and who has been complacently wed since childhood in an arranged marriage to Madhu

• Carol Kane – Mrs. Shaw (Helen), Gopal's exasperating divorcée neighbor, who has conspicuous one-night stands and whose house and car are conspicuously unkempt in Gopal's eyes

• Madhur Jaffrey – Madhu, Gopal's wife

• Purva Bedi – Geetu, Gopal and Madhu's daughter, who has grown up in America and who is newly unemployed

• Yolande Bavan – Preema, Madhu's Indian-American friend, who is enthused about an MLM (multi-level marketing scheme)

• Taj Crown – Harish, Preema's husband, who is also an MLM convert

• Neerja Sharma – Vandana, Preema and Harish's daughter

• Kal Penn – Vandana's fiancé, a pre-med student

• Niket Subhedar – Young Gopal, whose life in India revolves around cricket

• Stephen Barker Turner – Hans, Geetu's German boyfriend, who takes her off to Mongolia to teach English and live in a yurt