kumar is busy

Kal Penn, coming off quite a year, kicks off the new year with an upcoming guest appearance on Law and Order: SVU: Law & Order: SVU's January Guest Star Lineup. Here are the details:

On Jan.16, the series welcomes two up-and-coming film stars; Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers) and guest star Kal Penn ("Van Wilder") in the episode "Outsider." In this episode, Det. Odafin "Fin" Tutuola (Ice-T) is asked by his son, a resident adviser at college, to look into a rape case of a coed at his school. As the case deepens, Fin is joined by an SVU detective from Brooklyn named Chester Lake (guest star Adam Beach) who is working a similar case and believes there is a connection. The trail leads to a women's clinic where Dets. Fin and Lake find the common link between their victims. After further investigation, a game of cat and mouse develops with the doctor's son, Henry (Penn) that takes a twist.

The episode airs on January 16th. He'll also have a recurring role on the upcoming sixth season of 24... as well as a starring role in Mira Nair's The Namesake, and a role in Epic Movie (which looks like crap). Busy man, Mr. Modi.