How to Be Indie

How to Be Indie
Intertitle.
Genre	Comedy, children's
Created by	Vera Santamaria John May Suzanne Bolch
Starring	Melinda Shankar Marline Yan Dylan Everett
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Suzanne Bolch John May Vera Santamaria Karen Lee Hall Neil Court
Producer(s)	Colin Brunton Jennifer Pun Morrissette
Running time	22 Minutes
Production company(s)	Heroic Film Company Sudden Storm Productions Decode Entertainment
Distributor	DHX Media
Release
Original network	YTV
Original release	October 2, 2009 – October 24, 2011
External links
Website

How to Be Indie is a Canadian television show that has aired on YTV. The main character is a 13-year-old Indian Canadian teenager named Indira "Indie" Mehta. The program is a single-camera series intended for a youth audience. The series was created by Vera Santamaria, John May, and Suzanne Bolch. The series ran for two seasons and aired its final episode on October 24, 2011 on YTV in Canada and May 26, 2012 on Disney Channel in the United Kingdom.

Plot

The program follows Indie's journey as she tries to get the most out of life despite the travails of junior high school and the expectations of her Indian parents. She is joined by her two best friends Marlon Parks and Abigail "Abi" Flores. She often falls into the trap of caring more about what her peers think of her than who she wants to be herself, and consequently spends a lot of time trying to impress her classmates. When not focusing on Indie, the show focuses on Marlon and Abi. A given episode will usually show Marlon's quirky antics getting him into a troublesome situation. Abi will have to help extricate him, which she willingly does, feeling pity on him. Sometimes, however, they swap roles as Marlon tries to play it cool.

Production

The show is produced by Heroic Film Company in association with DHX Media and YTV and created by writer Vera Santamaria Suzanne Bolch and John May. Season one filmed 26 twenty-five-minute episodes and first premiered on 2 October 2009. The show was a part of YTV's 'Big Fun Weeknights'. A second season began filming in summer 2010, shooting five episodes and resumed filming in November 2010. The second season premiered on October 11, 2010.

Cast

From left to right, Dylan Everett as Marlon, Melinda Shankar as Indie and Marline Yan as Abi from Season 1

Main

Melinda Shankar as Indira "Indie" Mehta, the main character of the show. An upbeat and lively teenager, she is a new generation of Indian and is very modern, which often clashes with her parents.

Marline Yan as Abigail "Abi" Flores, Indie's best friend. Abi is very intelligent, always being there to get Indie and Marlon Parks out of trouble.

Dylan Everett as Marlon Parks, Indie's troublesome friend. He often relies on Abi to help him get out of trouble.

Sarena Parmar as Chandra Mehta, Indie's older sister. She enjoys being in the spotlight and outdoing her sister and brother, usually being rather selfish and selling her siblings out to get her way. Chandra is very familiar with her parents' traditional expectations and values, often finding ways around them with greater ease than Indie. She occasionally offers Indie sound advice.

Varun Saranga as A.J. Mehta, Indie's older brother. He is the intelligent one in the family, but is known as a geek in school.

Ellora Patnaik as Jyoti Mehta, Indie's mother. She is very traditional, usually favouring Chandra for being able to impress relatives.

Vijay Mehta as Vikram Mehta, Indie's father.

Errol Sitahal as Prakash Mehta, Indie's paternal grandfather, known more familiarly as "Babaji".

Recurring

Shainu Bala as Ram Ramachandran
Nikki Shah as Ruby Patel
Atticus Dean Mitchell as Carlos Martinelli
Deborah Glover as Mrs. Roland
Jordan Hudyma as Chad Tash (Season 1 and 2)
Ted Ludzik as Coach Wexler
Alex De Jordy as Mike O'Donnell (Season 1)
Georgina Reilly as Skye Rivers (Season 1)
Jason Jia as John Lu (Season 1)
Cassius Crieghtney as Dre (Season 2)
Timothy Lai as Aidan (Season 2)
Max Topplin as Madison

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