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...hardly redeemed by its closing twist. At the other end of the sensitivity spectrum, Mira Nair sets up an encounter between Irrfan Khan's Indian diamond merchant and Natalie Portman's Orthodox Jewish buyer. Plunging right into a cultural...

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...can be tougher to say more with less. Mira Nair presents some lovely visual touches in her installment, starring Natalie Portman as an Orthodox Jewish woman and Irrfan Khan as her Indian business associate. But the resolution of their...

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...(Andy Garcia and Hayden Christensen) vie for the same babe. In Mira Nair's earnest one, a young Hasidic bride (Natalie Portman) pines for the Jain (Irrfan Khan) who sells her diamonds. Portman also directs a segment in which a little girl...

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...a distracting feeling of inauthenticity from the start. Natalie Portman and Irrfan Khan enjoy some sparks in Mira Nair's contribution (and Portman herself directs a later piece). She plays a Hasidic Jew about to get married; he plays an...

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...a cohesive whole - a character from one interacts with a character from another Natalie Portman and Irrfan Khan enjoy some sparks in Mira Nair's contribution. She plays a Hasidic Jew about to get married; he plays an Indian Jain who owns a...

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Money Matters: Irrfan Won't Go For Mira Nair Premiere! By Subhash K Jha, Irrfan Khan had big plans to attend the premiere of his film Kosher Vegetarian in New York on October 16. He even had his clothes ready. But then, the unexpected...

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...is finally inert. In an entry by Mira Nair, Portman is a Hasidic woman working in the diamond district who has a secret crush on a Jain gem-dealer colleague (the great Indian leading man Irrfan Khan). In the film's arguably best...

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...with their lives. In director Mira Nair's story, an Indian jeweler (Irrfan Khan of "Slumdog Millionaire") negotiates the sale of a diamond with a Hasidic Jew (Natalie Portman, who also wrote and directed a segment of her own). The initial...

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...the diamond district to film an encounter between a Hasidic bride-to-be (Natalie Portman) and a Hindu diamond merchant (Irrfan Khan), whose cultural differences find a shared common ground as they talk about everything from food restrictions...

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