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Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali, detto Raj, è un personaggio della sitcom The Big Bang Theory, interpretato da Kunal Nayyar e doppiato in italiano da Alessio Buccolini.
- Overview
- Biography
- Career
- Characterization
- Physical Appearance
- Family
- Relationships
- Trivia
"I guess you could say, uh, Raj is my name and stars are my game. And rhyming is also my game. So, uh, two games."
―Raj Koothrappali,
Early life
Rajesh Koothrappali was born on October 6, 1981, in New Delhi, India to Dr. V.M. Koothrappali and Mrs. Koothrappali. At the age of 5, he 'discovered' a celestial object which later turned out to be the moon. He also has a younger sister Priya, a brother named Adoot, 2 other brothers and 1 other sister. While growing up in India, he didn't really like it there and grew to dislike his country's food and culture. Later, Raj left India and attended Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom. While speaking to his then-girlfriend Lucy, he stated that he thought Cambridge University looked like Hogwarts from Harry Potter. After graduating with a degree in astrophysics, he moved to Pasadena, California. There, he met Howard Wolowitz, who became his best friend, and Howard's mother made Raj feel welcome into their house (though, for 2 years, she thought he was the gardener). In 2003, he met Leonard Hofstadter in the university and made friends with. Leonard, Howard and Raj made a great trio. He also met Leonard's roommate Sheldon Cooper and just like Howard and Leonard, he got frustrated with him. What started the social group with Leonard is the team leader.
Season 1
Raj and Howard meet Leonard and Sheldon's new neighbour, Penny, who quickly learns of Raj's inability to speak to women (unless they're part of a crowd or he's drunk, the latter of which is discovered later in the season). Later, he goes out with Howard, Leonard, Sheldon and Penny to dinner. (Pilot) Sheldon gets sick and Leonard joins Howard and Raj for a film. Leonard's glasses get broken, then Leonard gets ditched by Howard and Raj and joins Sheldon in bad condition, having hit his head and gotten a concussion. (The Pancake Batter Anomaly)
Season 2
Raj and Howard spy on Leonard's date with Penny and as Sheldon says "took advantage of his lack of interest in what they were doing". When Sheldon decides to leave Leonard to keep a secret for Penny, he moves in with Raj, who quickly gets displeased with Sheldon and sends him over to Howard, who himself sends Sheldon back to Leonard. Sheldon, then drugged by Howard, reveals Penny's secret to Leonard, who insults Penny. (The Bad Fish Paradigm)
Dr. Rajesh Koothrappali is an astrophysicist and faculty member in Caltech's Physics Department. He was part of the team to design the New Horizons space probe to collect data about the Pluto system and beyond. For his discovery of a planetary object beyond the Kuiper belt, 2008 NQ17 (which he calls "Planet Bollywood"), he is included in People magazine's "30 Under 30 to Watch", granting him some form of celebrity status and a larger office for his work. He is also known for a publication on Kuiper belt object size distribution, having run a simulation to correct for the observational efficiency, and was awarded the Newcomb Medal. His research even extends to searching for Trojan asteroids at the Earth-Sun L5 Lagrange point and he wrote a paper on the Van Allen belts. However, the work Raj performs at the university is repetitive enough that he could conceivably be replaced by a simple software program, and he fails to observe an exoplanet orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani with his much anticipated time using a ground-based telescope operating in Hawaii.
During "The Pirate Solution", when Raj's research testing the predicted composition of trans-Neptunian objects ends, his working permit and visa are bound to become void, as they are only valid as long as he is employed. He seeks out a research position in stellar evolution with Professor Laughlin. However, the job proposition fails as the research team includes an attractive female, Dr. Catherine Millstone, and Raj accidentally drinks a little too much alcohol, causing him to make a sexually explicit comment. To avoid Rajesh Koothrappali's deportation to India, Sheldon asks him to work for him and, after several disputes, he agrees.
Wanting to be the male "Indira Gandhi of particle astrophysics," Raj researches dark matter. With Sheldon, he explores the string theory implications of gamma rays from dark matter annihilations and considers methods of optimizing a detector for 500 GeV particles to look for the annihilation spectrum resulting from dark matter collisions in space. While Sheldon argues that slow-moving xenon doesn't produce ultra-violet light, Raj posits that xenon can emit the tell-tale ultra-violet light from dark matter collisions, potentially negating a series of dark matter discoveries, and points to neutron scattering data.
In Season 11, he starts working at the Griffith Observatory as a speaker in the planetarium. He still continues this job in Season 12.
In "The Conjugal Configuration", Raj appears on a television to discuss a meteor shower and ends up in an Internet feud with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
In "The Decision Reverberation", Raj receives a question about his work at the Griffith Observatory. He had found a regularly spaced optical signature on an exoplanet and one of the explanations could have been a sign of alien life. The audience takes that as announcement as does the news media. At work his colleagues make fun of him. Later Raj tries to explain that lots of things were considered myth and then became proven like the round earth, germs, sub-atomic particles colonies on Mars, matter transporters, the Loch Ness monster, etc. Next thing he knows is that the news media has him claiming that the Loch Ness monster Is real.
Originally from India, Raj is slightly clueless about American culture and idioms, and dislikes Indian food and his home country. Sheldon even disputes his knowledge of Indian customs and Hinduism, and reveals Raj's native language is English (which Raj speaks with a mainly-Indian accent with a hint of British), while he seems to speak fluent Hindi. Raj stated that the reason he puts up with Sheldon is so that he could be reborn as a "well-hung billionaire with wings", according to his Hindu belief of being rewarded after reincarnation for suffering willingly; to Rajesh Koothrappali, karma is "practically Newtonian". He hates Indian music; however, he does appreciate the Indian lullabies his mother sang to him, and the catchiness of Hindi phrases, two mentioned phrases being "जो जी करे कर" - "whatever floats your boat;" and "Fever 104, बहुत अच्छे संगीत का मौजूदा घर. The phrase means: Fever 104, home of the really good current music."
On the rare occasions when he actually gets homesick, he picks up the latest issue of "Bombay Badonkadonks" and performs Bollywood dancing. He is hypocritically sensitive to others' racist jokes about India, though he is not above making racist remarks about India, or, in his view, "Gandhi-ville". Raj also claims he can hold out from noxious gases because he grew up in India. Raj likes to say that he comes from the "exotic" subcontinent of India and had to overcome poverty and prejudice, to make himself appear interesting and mystical, especially when he is womanizing. More often than not, he likes to be associated with "Slumdog Millionaire", except when Howard's mother says it. Much like how Howard rarely follows kosher, Rajesh eats beef and believes that some of the Hindu Code of Manu is crazy.
Raj also has an extremely ambiguous attitude and opinion of his own country and upbringing, which primarily depends on the situation he finds himself in and how it would benefit him. He believes that his most flattering quality for women is not an aspect of his own character, but the fact that he has vastly rich parents. As stated before, he enjoys portraying himself as a child of poverty who heroically journeyed to America to reach for the stars, but what puts him at the opposite end of this spectrum is his rich parentage. He portrayed himself as such because it makes him appear heroic. Rajesh also tends to heavily rely on his family's wealth for his own lifestyle, often wielding the family fortunes extravagantly. He enjoys his privileged lifestyle to such an extent that, when he wanted something off his father he offered to cut off the cleaning lady so that he could provide for himself, then muttering to Cinnamon that they were both going to be living like animals. Much like Howard would only consider that either his mother or Bernadette would do housework, or any work around his living space, Raj essentially never pays to survive - his parents pay his insurances and rent and he pays someone to buy food and even walk his dog. This leads to the speculation that, even though Raj is an adult, he acts like a spoiled child.
In addition, Raj could be extremely pompous when it suited him: he referred to Priya as his baby sister, and when he discovered Leonard was having an affair with her, he verbally prevented it and voiced that he apparently had authority over their relationship. In this same incident, he used Sheldon's claim that Indian women's relationship could be controlled by the older male relative (Meaning that, in order to adhere to this rule that he would have to be loyal to Indian custom), only to arrogantly brush aside Priya's pointing out that he was currently eating meat not permitted in his culture (He claimed, when faced with this, that he could avoid certain regulations of his culture if he considered it crazy). His protectiveness of his sister, or his view of her in general, is laughable in some respects - when he tells Howard to stay away from Priya and stated that she was way hotter than Howard's girlfriend, the exact second after Howard agreed with him Raj snapped, "Dude, that's my sister you're talking about!'; later on, when he learns of Howard's pact with Leonard that prohibits them from interest in Priya, Raj is sated when Howard says that they 'pinky-swore' on the pact, but later on he explosively stated that defiling Priya superseded a pinky-swear.
He used to have a psychological condition called selective mutism, a recognized social anxiety disorder which rendered him unable to talk to women (with the exception of family members, who were seemingly unaware of his condition, and deaf women, as seen in "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst" when he could talk in front of Emily), although he quickly learned that he was able to temporarily overcome this problem by consuming either alcohol-containing foods and medicine or experimental anti-anxiety medication. Unfortunately, the alcohol altered his personality and the medications tended to have side effects, such as involuntary face and hand motions, loss of rationality, or jovially stripping naked in public without cognizance of its inappropriate nature. Raj was also able to speak in the presence of women if they were part of a crowd, if he was unaware of their presence, or if he believed that he has been drinking alcohol (a placebo effect, as seen in "The Terminator Decoupling" when he was able to talk to Summer Glau while drinking beer, but when Howard pointed out that the beer was non-alcoholic, he could no longer speak to her). When Lucy broke up with him In the season six finale, "The Bon Voyage Reaction," he discovered while talking to Penny that he was... well, talking to Penny, even though he had not consumed any alcohol since the previous night, which made him realize that breaking things off with Lucy seemed to allowed him to finally overcome his selective mutism. As of season 7, he no longer requires alcohol in order to speak in front of females though it did temporarily return when he first tried to have sex with his arranged bride Anu.
One of Raj's primary personality quirks beside his selective mutism is his tendency to speak or act inappropriately in most situations. One primary example of the latter was when, in "The Love Car Displacement", he enters Leonard and Penny's room while they are about to have sex, climbs into bed and goes to sleep, completely unaware of what he interrupted. On another occasion, he openly acknowledged having had crushes on Penny and Bernadette directly in front of them, simultaneously making them uncomfortable and making Amy upset, and fails to recognize Amy's change in mood despite Penny and Bernadette's discreet efforts to indicate it to him. Seen in "The Santa Simulation". Raj and his friends also have made suggestions like driving around with a van to pick up children for their proposed comic book shop and enticing them with candy, unknowingly suggesting pedophilia.
Raj is a man of ideal weight and is also average height for an Indian man, originally in his mid-twenties, but he is in his late thirties by the end of the series. He's 5'7" (1.70 m), with black hair and brown eyes. He is normally seen wearing a layered combination of a shirt, a sweater vest, and a windbreaker with cargo pants and skate shoes; he w...
•Grandfather: Dilip Koothrappali
•Parents: Dr. V. M. (father) and Mrs. Koothrappali (mother)
•Sisters: Priya Koothrappali and an unnamed sister
•Brothers: Adoot Koothrappali and 2 unnamed brothers
•Cousins: Venkatesh Koothrappali, Sanjay Koothrappali, and Dilip (mentioned in "The Neonatal Nomenclature")
•Uncle: Unnamed uncle
FriendsMiscellaneousRomanticUnlike the other main characters, Raj's romantic relationships have never been very serious or lasting, mostly due to his inability to speak to women. He has had a number of one-night-stands and brief dates. Impressively though, Raj was the first one among the four to get laid within the series in "The Middle-Earth Paradigm" at Penny's Halloween party. He is much more successful in casual sex than the more sexually aggressive Howard, and, among the guys, has great appeal to extremely attractive women. He has/had a big crush on Howard's fiancée (now wife), Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, who has said how wonderful a man he is and has called him a "cutie pie", much like Penny. At one point, Raj implies that he is dating a "deaf chick" before he ever meets Penny's deaf friend Emily, though later admitted this to be a lie.•Raj was the only one of the four (Howard, Leonard, himself and Sheldon) whose father appeared til Leonard's father debuted. Howard's father's only been mentioned and Sheldon's died before the start of the series (dying when Sheldon was 14) but Raj sees his father with his mother through his webcam. Once he visited Pasadena at Christmas time.
•He has a Ph.D. in astrophysics.
•The baseball cap Raj wears in the Pilot bears the number 42 (the answer to life, the universe and everything) on it. This was Raj's only baseball cap appearance.
•Raj is 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall and the height of Kunal Nayyar. This measurement is two inches above the average height for males in India, one-and-a-half inches below the average height for male private school students in India, and two inches below the average height for males in the US. In "The Transporter Malfunction", he states that, next to Howard and Bernadette, he looks 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall.
•Until season 10, He lived in an apartment, which he called his "Raj Mahal" when Penny visited.
•Raj wasn't at all serious about his Hindu faith and ate beef, which is frowned upon by most Hindus.
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Rajesh "Raj" Ramayan Koothrappali, Ph.D. is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by British actor Kunal Nayyar. He is one of four main male characters in the show, alongside Howard Wolowitz, Sheldon Cooper, and Leonard Hofstadter, to appear in every episode of The Big Bang Theory.
30 mag 2019 · The Big Bang Theory si è interrotta ma le vite dei protagonisti continuano e, prima o poi, Raj inciamperà su qualcuna. Nonostante non abbia avuto quell’happy ending canonico che ci aspettavamo, l’astrofisico ci ha dato un grande insegnamento: è meglio stare da soli che accontentarsi.
Rajesh "Raj" Ramayan Koothrappali, è un astrofisico indiano originario di Nuova Delhi, nato il 6 ottobre classe 1981 e migliore amico di Howard Wolowitz.
Come il suo miglior amico Howard, anche Raj non segue i dettami della sua religione induista, cercando anzi di integrarsi nella cultura americana (mostrando a tratti un comportamento metrosessuale), nonostante a volte faccia pesare agli amici una sorta di razzismo nei suoi confronti.
8 apr 2021 · In un'intervista a Metro UK, Nayyar ha raccontato di come, inizialmente, nei piani di Chuck Lorre e Bill Prady non ci fosse la figura di Raj, o almeno non come la pensiamo noi:
