Rama Vallury Joins Cast of Showtime’s ‘Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber’
- The Indian American who voiced Ali in the English version of “Squid Game,” plays Tahir Khan, a top engineer at the ride-sharing company.
Indian American actor, voice-over artist and musician Rama Vallury has been roped in for “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber,” which premieres on Showtime, Feb. 27. He joins Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kyle Chandler, Uma Thurman, Ian Alda, Sonny Valicenti, Ben Feldman and Rob Morrow. Vallury plays Tahir Khan, a top engineer at Uber.
“Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” is the first installment of an anthology series about major moments in the business world. It will follow the highs and lows of Silicon Valley life through Uber’s beginnings as a company. Variety reports that the first season is based on Mike Isaac’s 2019 book of the same name. Brian Koppelman and David Levien and Beth Schacter executive produce, write and serve as showrunners on the series.
A graduate of Second City Hollywood, Vallury, a Chicago native, previously wrote for “CBS Diversity Showcase.” He most recently voiced Ali in the English version of the Korean series “Squid Game.” Ali, the only foreigner and Pakistani worker who participates to provide for his family is portrayed by Indian actor Anupam Tripathi.
Vallury’s most notable credits include “Baby Shark’s Big Show,” Nickelodeon’s “Tooned In,” “Mira, Royal Detective.” and His longest gig was as Caillou in the AOK YouTube series/ He has contributed as one-half of the bands Vallury and Butler and King Oaf and The Quarantines, as well as the comedic duo George and Vallury.
In an interview with Sportskeeda, Vallury told the sports and esports news website that he was “on track to become a history professor specializing in a field I called Military History and the Commodification of Cultural Memory.” He said his undergraduate honors thesis was on how the meaning of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 changed or was interpreted over time.
Vallury told the website that he didn’t actively start performing (apart from school bands or orchestra) until he was a radio DJ and commercial director at WPGU 107.1 while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “All of my creative endeavors up until that point were largely kept private in the form of writing short stories, plays, poems, or creating shorts with my friends and family.”
Citing his personal experiences, he told Sportskeeda that “you must give yourself permission to try. You can come up with hundreds of reasons why you shouldn’t try something. You only need one to give anything a go: ask yourself why not? At this point, I do as many things as I am interested in. If I didn’t give myself permission, I’d likely be a History Professor right now.”