Vikram is a ten-year-old Muslim-American boy growing up in 1990s New York City in a hard-working immigrant family. He is observant, imaginative, and deeply sensitive, with a natural curiosity about the world that often puts him at odds with the rigid expectations around him.
Raised between fractured households and adult spaces he is too young to fully understand, Viki has learned to navigate chaos with humor, deflection, and quiet resilience. He is both naïve and perceptive, capable of childlike wonder one moment and startling emotional insight the next.
Viki longs for connection, safety, and self-expression. His journey is one of early self-discovery: grappling with identity, longing for acceptance, and trying to make sense of who he is in a world that does not yet have language for him.
The actor playing Viki should be able to balance lightness and depth, someone who can be funny and playful while also being able to access vulnerability, pain and truth.
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