Actor Siddharth will star opposite Freida Pinto in Netflix’s upcoming hour-long family drama ‘Unaccustomed Earth’, created by John Wells and Madhuri Shekar.
Set in an elite Indian American enclave in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the series follows a close-knit community as a long-buried romance between a devoted wife and her former love sparks a scandal, testing bonds of love, loyalty, and belonging.
Siddharth’s two-decade career spans Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi cinema, where he has worked as an actor, screenwriter, singer, and producer. A polyglot fluent in seven languages, he debuted with the Tamil film ‘Boys’ (2003) and gained wider acclaim for his nuanced performance in the BAFTA-nominated ‘Rang De Basanti’ (2007), directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and featuring an ensemble cast including Aamir Khan and Soha Ali Khan.
The 46-year-old Siddharth was last seen in Sri Ganesh’s coming-of-age drama ‘3BHK’ (2025) and will next appear in Kamal Haasan’s ‘Indian 3’.
Freida Pinto, who debuted in Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (2008), has since built a strong career in American and British film and television.
Principal photography for ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ begins August 2025 and continues through year’s end, with John Wells as showrunner, Ritesh Batra directing, and Erica Saleh, Erin Jontow, and Nisha Ganatra as executive producers.
