Indian actor and stage artist Mahnaz Damania, plays Rana, Pi’s sister in the Broadway adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi.
Mahnaz shines in Broadway’s ‘Life of Pi’
Compiled by: Team GI Youth
Published on 20, Dec 2022
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