United Kingdom, June 9 -- Mindy Kaling sometimes feels overly "scrutinised" by the Indian-American community.

The 46-year-old star, who rose to fame in The Office and The Mindy Project, has opened up about the "pressure" that comes with representing her own heritage in the world of television.

She told The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast: "My community is so starved for any kind of representation, so there's a lot of pressure on that.

"If you show a certain kind of Indian person and they have different traditions than the kind of Indian person that those people knew and grew up with, that feels disappointing.

"So I've had to deal with that for 20 years of my career, and I can't say that it's easy, but I will say that that ...