Bollywood
"We're obsessed with India and Bollywood," Ullman revealed about herself and her husband, ‘Union’ co-producer, Allan McKeown. McKeown runs a production company in India producing television programmes. Padma Perkesh, Ullman's Indian character, is a pharmacist who sings the medication side-effects to customers in Bollywood-styled routines. "There are so many Indian pharmacists in America," says Ullman, whose own pharmacist is Indian.
After handing clients their prescription, Perkesh begins her Bollywood chant, as the stock shelves behind her pull out revealing a colorful dance stage, filled with Indian decor. Padma rips off her white coat, and dances with her fellow stock workers, (and sometimes customers).
Lyrical excerpts from Bipolar medication song:
There's no shame in being Bipolar
A bit like having your mood up in rollers
One minute you feel happy -- a ha a ha
The next you want to cry -- boo hoo hoo hoo
You shoot a man in Reno, just to watch him die
I say that I must warn you
The side effects are bad
Far more traumatic
Than your molesting dad
Even Diet Pepsi
Can trigger epilepsy
While shopping at Ikea
Explosive diarrhea
In Season 2, Padma's songs are broader. No longer are they just about prescription side effects.
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