Within hours of Mean Girls' (2024) box office-topping release, bootleg video of Avantika's song-and-dance ... That's when her co-star Busy Philipps took it upon herself to bring the two Karens ...

Avantika Vandanapu plays the role of "bimbo" Karen Shetty in the new Mean Girls musical and feels it's a chance to change perceptions around South Asians in the film industry. The ditzy character ...