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Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

Ajay Naidu

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Ajay Naidu
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 12
Actor
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Evanston
Illinois
Ajay Kalahastri Naidu
Culture
Swirling
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Camp
Together
Camps
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Many
Concentration
Different
Summer
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Acting

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