Posted on 07/03/07
Straddling two worlds
Mira Nair is not in the house. It seems the award-winning director of Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Monsoon Wedding (2001) won't arrive in time to do a Q&A after the preview screening of her latest film, The Namesake (opening across North America on Friday). There is a murmur of disappointment as the house lights dim -- but what a difference two hours makes. After 30 years in the life of the Gangulis family unfolds on the big screen -- the action moving effortlessly between the throbbing cities of Calcutta and Manhattan with a gamut of events, from small to life-changing -- the credits roll and there is Nair, elegant and beaming, ready to tell the appreciative, standing-room-only crowd about a film that is the Indian-born, Manhattan-based filmmaker's most personal to date.
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