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    Himesh Patel masters the Beatles in 'Yesterday'

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Jun 28, 2019 5 minutes

    NEW YORK - First things first: Himesh Patel wasn't always a Beatles fan.

    Growing up, he preferred indie rock (the Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys) and Bollywood (especially A.R. Rahman's soundtrack to "Rang De Basanti") to the Fab Four, even if "Imagine" was his mom's favorite song.

    That has now changed, says the actor, pulling up the leg of his pants to show off a pair of Yellow Submarine novelty socks. Patel, 28, was in Manhattan for the world premiere of "Yesterday," a high-concept romantic comedy in which he plays Jack Malik, a struggling singer-songwriter who lives in a rundown seaside town in Suffolk, England.

    After a mysterious accident, Jack awakens to find himself in a world where the Beatles never existed. He rises to fame by passing off their hits as his own but, in the process, alienates his adoring best friend and

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