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Creator Abdullah Saeed drew directly on his own background growing up in a South Asian immigrant family with ties to the convenience store and small business world. He has said the show began as a way to write the kind of immigrant family comedy he had never seen on American television, one where the family's ethnicity is central but not the butt of the joke.

The production worked with actual South Asian small-business owners as consultants to ensure the stores looked and operated authentically. Several of these consultants also made cameo appearances throughout the first season, lending the show a texture of genuine community involvement.

The title was chosen for its deliberate everyman quality, sounding like something you'd see on a hand-painted sign above a counter, and as a playful inversion of the grandiose crime-series title conventions the show is riffing on. The creators considered and rejected several more dramatically conventional titles before landing on the one that felt most like the show itself.

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When their father, a larger-than-life Pakistani-American businessman, dies unexpectedly, brothers Mir and Raj discover that his empire of convenience stores and delis has been secretly funding something far more dangerous than grocery sales. To save their inheritance and their lives, the two very different brothers must navigate a criminal underworld they never knew existed.

Created by Abdullah Saeed, Deli Boys is a raucous, affectionate crime comedy on Hulu that doubles as a love letter to the South Asian-American immigrant experience. The show follows its brothers from the suburbs into a world of gangsters, loyal employees, and rival operators, filtered through a sensibility that is as warm as it is sharp.

Praised for its fresh voice and its hilarious, grounded performances from Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh as the brothers, Deli Boys quickly became one of the most talked-about new comedies of 2025. Critics singled out its ability to be simultaneously a loving portrait of a community and a genuinely funny crime romp without letting either mode undercut the other.

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