The Wall Street Journal asks the question why the role of Divya Narendra, a Harvard student in "The Social Network" was played by non-Desi actor Max Minghella. The real life Divya is on the left and the actor on the right in the picture above.
Another film the article neglects to mention is "21" which was based on the true story of a group of MIT students who use their brains to take the casinos for a ride. If you watched the film, you wouldn't know that the main characters in real life were Asian American students. It's all sort of absurd, especially if you were to reverse this.
[Hat tip: Mun]