-in the world of entertainment, comedian and writer hari kondalu is no stranger to addressing tough topics takesoon the long-running caseries "the simpsons" in his documentary titled, "the problem with apu." it explores how an indian convenience ste owner caters to stereotypes. he problem is we didn't have any other representation in this country. -there was no aziz, no mindy, no kal, no "that dude who was on 'lost at other dude from 'heroes' and that dude that's in the apuocumentary," no politicians or reporters and no whatever deepak chopra is. no pthis is all we had.ters er apu reflected how ica viewed us -- servile, devious, goofy. -and joining me now is hari kondabolu. so nice to have you here. -thanks for having me. -"the simpsons" was one of your favorite tv shows as a kid, and yet you were so frustrated with theharacter named apu. why? -apu is a convenience store owner, very one-dimensional, stereotypical, and at that time, that's the oamy depiction south asiaicans had, specifically indian-americans. like, we didn't have anything else, and initially we were... i think i waomexcited