in the movie "The Namesake"? Here's a part of an interview with writer/producer Kal Penn:

Q: Do you play air guitar on your own?

KAL PENN: I don't but I'm glad that that Pearl Jam thing worked out. The book is set about 10 years before the film is set, so I was pitching the idea of Pearl Jam, and I said we have to get a Pearl Jam song. They were using some temp music from some local band from the lower East Side and I said it's not the same as Pearl Jam in the late 90's or the mid-90’s, trust me. Mira totally got it. She said ‘I know, but we can't use Pearl Jam unless Pearl Jam approves it, and Pearl Jam won't approve it unless they see the film.' So you have to show them the film before they agree to use it, and we decided to shoot the scene once with the track they already had with this local band and half the time with this Pearl Jam song playing hoping they would agree to it. I guess Eddie Vedder and those guys own all the rights to license their music for film. So they must have watched it and agreed to it.

Q: Have you met him yet?

KAL PENN: No, I really want to. I'm a huge fan.

Q: I was going to say that definitely had to be.....

KAL PENN: Yeah, I'm a huge, huge Pearl Jam fan.

Once.


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that was a great (yet depressing) book- look forward to teh movie

wow, very cool.

good book. pretty accurrate regarding a first-generation indian upbringing in the US.

I heard the book is really good from my cousin's roommate.

yeah, its a quick read too. i hope hollywood doesnt dumb down the movie.

glad to hear that, if it is true

Sounds like a book I would want to read.