Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni helped kick off NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival, Thursday with the East Coast premiere of their new romantic comedy, “A Nice Indian Boy.”

Directed by Roshan Sethi, the film is a tender cross-cultural love story between an Indian American doctor, Naveen (Soni), and Jay (Groff), a white photographer who was raised by Indian parents. “A Nice Indian Boy” marks Groff’s much-anticipated return to the big screen following his Tony-winning run in the smash Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along.”