Mira Nair

Mira Nair I first remember hearing about Mira Nair last year, not in my Introduction to Cinema class but from my half-Indian friend who praised Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding. It should be noted that my first film teacher was a white man, older than sixty and not concerned with women directors; out of the sixteen films screened for the semester, two were directed by women and none by women of color. Mira Nair has a unique understanding that she is fighting a long and slow battle for her films to be

Mira Nair and Mississippi Masala (1991) Introduction Mira Nair is an independent filmmaker who splits her time between New York City, Kampala, and wherever her next project takes her. As appraised by the writers at RogerEbert.com, “Nair has made a career of presenting audiences with characters they may not know first-hand, but connect with personally” (2016). Her work is a delicate balance between the exploration of complex issues of identity and displacement and the humor and vibrancy of everyday

amalgamated dexterously in the texture of the novel. Lahiri’s The Namesake was adapted as a film in 2006, released on March 9, 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City. The film is directed by an Indian born filmmaker Mira Nair, living in the US. Sooni Taraporevala adapted the novel into a screenplay. The film received positive reviews/acclaims from American critics and won ‘Love is Folly International Film Festival’ (Bulgaria)-"Golden

diverts the focus of Gogol’s struggles who is the heart of the novel. Mira Nair

Culture is not just about race, family background, and inheritance. It is bigger than that. Characters and actor’s choice are significant to present this. Characters used in the book and movie relates. When I was reading the book, I had an idea of how Ashima, Gogol, Ashoke looks. Most of those ideas were true. I thought Gogol would be better looking and darker shade skin. Ashima is exactly what I thought she would look like. Ashoke is shown as this perfect husband, dad a provider. A lot of Gogol’s

The film Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair is an intriguing film about Punjabi culture. Produced in thirty days, it shows five different stories and how they develop. Some develop into love stories and have a happy ending. For one it shows the horrible disgusting reality of life. Throughout the film, it shows the innocent, harmless love, then as the film comes closer to the end, it becomes a dark reality that the audience has to realize happens to Ria Verma and Aylia Verma. Ria is an ordinary

themselves into the foreign culture. The themes of family, cultural diversity, and identity crisis were displayed prominently throughout the film. Director Mira Nair has personally gone through the same situation, which made her the perfect director for this movie. Nair came to the United States from India when she was in college (“Mira Nair”). She used her knowledge and own background to produce a film based

The drama-comedy film Mississippi Masala (1991) directed by Mira Nair explores an interracial love story between Meena, an Indian woman, and Demetrius, an African-American, portrayed by Sarita Choudhury and Denzel Washington, respectively. This is one of those movies that I had high hopes for and anticipated that by the end I would feel so empowered and moved that it would be impossible to not constantly hype up the motion picture to friends and strangers. To my relief, those expectations were met

When Idi Amin’s policies are forcing Asians to leave Uganda, Mina’s father Jay asks his lifelong native Ugandan friend Okelo, “Where should I go? Where should I go? This is my home” (Nair). Okelo replies, “Not any more, Jay. Africa is for Africans—black Africans” (Nair). Although the pain of being forced to leave Uganda so that its indigenous people can regain control of the economy is massive for Jay, it is this remark by his closest friend that devastates him, because

The Namesake The Namesake, a winner of the Pulitzer prize, is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri published in the year 2003. In the year 2007, The Namesake became a significant motion picture. The novel and film, both convey the theme of culture clash between American and Indian tradition. As the story transitions, the theme is exhibit by the struggles the Ganguli family went through in America such as Gogol’s name, influence Indian traditions into the Gangulis lives of the children, and the failures in the