{"id":426001,"date":"2026-09-04T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426001\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:02:16","slug":"manisha-koirala-attached-to-star-in-cowgirls-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426001\/","title":{"rendered":"Manisha Koirala Attached to Star in ‘Cowgirls & Indians’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tManisha Koirala<\/a> is attached to star in \u201cCowgirls & Indians,\u201d an indie feature that will start shooting in November around Austin, Texas, and nearby locations. The film was formerly titled \u201cCowboys & Indians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTejal Desai, a Nicholl Fellow, wrote and is directing the film, expanding on her award-winning short \u201cCowboys and Hindus.\u201d The story follows a middle-aged Indian woman navigating identity and unlikely friendships against a Texas backdrop, centering on cultural displacement and resilience as South Asian heritage meets American grit.<\/p>\n

\n\tKirtana Banskota (\u201cThe World\u2019s Happiest Man,\u201d \u201cPremonition\u201d) is producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tKoirala, one of South Asia\u2019s most popular stars is known forNetflix\u2019s \u201cHeeramandi\u201d and \u201c1942: A Love Story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have been quoted before on how there are not enough roles written for women of a certain age,\u201d Koirala said. \u201cThough things are gradually changing now, there is still a long way to go. However, \u2018Cowgirls & Indians\u2019 was brought to me and after meeting the team, meeting Tejal, and listening to the entire script and his intention on why he wrote it, I knew this story has great potential to cross boundaries while having fun doing so. I\u2019m looking forward to braving the Texas terrains while on horseback drinking my chai.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDesai added: \u201c\u2018Cowgirls and Indians\u2019 is a coming-of-age story about a middle-aged Indian woman discovering who she is in the American Southwest. \u201cManisha Koirala\u2019s performances have always carried an intense realism, vulnerability, and strength \u2013 from \u2018Dil Se\u2019 to \u2018Heeramandi,\u2019 she\u2019s built a career on stillness and expressive eyes that say more about complex emotions,\u201d Desai said. \u201cAsha needs exactly a woman whose whole history lives in her eyes and the strength to carry a story on her shoulders. And beyond the performance itself, Manisha carries a rare gravity \u2013 an actress who has weathered real hardship and emerged with more resilience, not less, which is the exact arc Asha travels across this film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBanskota said Texas is the place to film right now. \u201cThe new incentives, talent staying in-state, and the sheer vastness of everything available here makes filming a lot friendlier for filmmakers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tTalent agent Zahin Khan represents Koirala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manisha Koirala is attached to star in \u201cCowgirls & Indians,\u201d an indie feature that will start shooting in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,148117,148118],"class_list":["post-426001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-cowgirls-indians","tag-manisha-koirala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}