Rajiv Surendra

Rajiv Surendra is best known for his role as the rapping mathlete in the original Mean Girls. Currently he hosts a YouTube channel where he is a Renaissance man showing how to do everything from throwing pottery, to calligraphy to upholstering furniture. Elephants in My Back Yard is his memoir of growing up in Canada and getting established. The majority of the book deals with his single minded focus on being cast as Pi in the film version of Life of Pi, an effort that was ultimately unsuccessful. Nevertheless his devotion to the attempt was admirable. To prepare he learned how to swim, visited Sri Lanka, and spent years pursuing anyone who could help get him cast. This is an interesting look inside of a talented man's life.… (mehr)