Pashupathi Ganeshan: Actor

Pashupathi Ganeshan is New York based actor. He has had roles in over 8 feature films and television programs in India and has recently returned to acting here in the United States. Pashupathi has a passion for understanding characters and what drives them, and likes to play conflicted characters. In 2003, he starred in "Are You Feeling Lonely", a short film that focuses almost on a disturbed and lonely morgue worker played by Pashupathi. The film brought a great deal of attention to director Rosario Garcia-Montero after the film's success at film festivals helped Filmmaker Magazine identify her as one of the top 25 filmmakers to watch in 2004.

To contact Pashupathi, please click here or email pashupathi "at" nerdshack "dot" com.

Here's what some others have said about his performance in Are You Feeling Lonely...

"Are You Feeling Lonely might be the best movie I've seen this year, and it's only 14 minutes long. I don't want to give too much away, but imagine Taxi Driver re-done as a dark comedy about a mortuary janitor who looks for romance with the families of the recently deceased. The lead character is the most interesting and disturbing thing to come out of New York City since the plunger incident and the script is wildly inventive, creating its own dialect for the lonely and diminutive [main character], Baddi."
(J.DiGiovanna, Tucson Weekly)

"Watch out for Baddi, who just might be calling to ask if you like movies or refreshments. Before you know it, you might have yourself a date."
(Arizona Film Festival)

"Garcia-Montero, who was raised in Peru, creates a garish and lovely character study about an isolated immigrant mortician."
(Rooftop Films)

"Are You Feeling Lonely? is a fascinating, insightful and spooky film. It looks great, and the performance is fantastic somewhere between Taxi Driver and Bottle Rocket�
(Mark Elijah Rosenberg)

"Three of the filmmakers screening at this year's festival were featured as Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Indie Film. Rosario Garcia-Montero's charming, yet unsettling, vignette Are You Feeling Lonely? examines an Indian morgue attendant's unhealthy infatuation with his customers' next of kin"
(Coney Island Film Festival 2004)

"The real highlights of the festival were the short comedies. Are You Feeling Lonely? is a hilarious tale of a janitor in the New York City morgue. He shows off his best cheesy American pickup lines ("Are you lonely? Do you like refreshment?") to yet-to-be-informed widows."
(Enfuse Magazine)

"In this disturbing, award-winning short drama from New York City, a personality-challenged young man who works as an autopsy clean-up assistant uses his office's telephone to make cold-calls to potential dates. Repeating absurd pick-up lines and endlessly quoting movies, the man manages to snare several unwitting partners"
(Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax. Canada)

"An immigrant morgue worker tries to connect with the living but is too immersed in fantasy to succeed"
(New York Expo)

"Such a sad and sweet portrait, with humor that cuts through the dark overtones of the film"
(Belo Horizonte Short Film Festival, Brazil)

"Definitely an original story"
(John Lehan, IndieWIRE Sundance Review)

"Baddi could perfectly be taken from a David Lynch film�such a character deserves a feature film"
(Pablo Villa�a, �Cinema em Cena� (www.cinema.art.br)

"A genuine character study"
(Spencer Parsons, Cinematexas Film Festival Curator and Sundance 2004 Jury Member)

"Looking for love in all the wrong places? Try the Morgue"
(San Francisco Independent Film Festival. 2005)

"Discover why you never want to receive a phone call from Baddi in Rosario Garcia-Montero�s creepy character piece Are You Feeling Lonely?"
(Kinofilm, 9th Manchester International Short Film Festival)