Mira Nair
Producer, Actor, and Director
Amelia struggled to get airborne (Reuters)Nair joined the project in January 2008. Although Nair might seem an unusual choice -- she had, after all, come to fame with such Bollywood movies as "Monsoon Wedding" and "Salaam Bombay!" -- Hyman had worked with her on other period... In this article: Mira Nair, Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Ron Bass, Ted Waitt, Electra Junior, Hilary Swank, and Hachiko: A Dog's Story |
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Filmcritic.com DVD Reviews | November 16, 2007
The Namesake Movie Review, DVD Release - Filmcritic.com
...India. Though it was easy to see where these moments were pointing, The Namesake gives Nair a broad canvas and a more concise frame to study the American identity and its effects on other cultures without any affectation or pretense. Gogol...
In this article: The Namesake, Kal Penn, DVD, Jacinda Barrett, Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair, and England
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www.washingtonpost.com | March 15, 2007
The Two Worlds Of Director Mira Nair
...to do this film and has been for a while." Despite routinely working with such big Hollywood names (Reese Witherspoon starred in Nair's "Vanity Fair" in 2004); despite turning down an offer from Warner Bros. to direct the forthcoming...
In this article: Kal Penn, The Namesake, Mumbai, Johnny Depp, Hysterical Blindness, Mississippi Masala, Hollywood, New York, and India
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'Vanity' Becomes Her
Unfortunately, Nair's film doesn't so much end as fall off a cliff, the ultimate victim of viewers' heightened expectations that this briskly paced story will take them someplace -- other than around the block in a horse-drawn carriage.
In this article: Becky Sharp, William Makepeace Thackeray, Reese Witherspoon, Vanity Fair, Gabriel Byrne, James Purefoy, and Played
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Reese Witherspoon stars as Becky Sharp, a clever, self-reliant nanny who bounces ... Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim ... Directed by: Mira Nair ...
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Description from Wikipedia:
Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957 at Rourkela, India) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.
She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She used the proceeds of the film, to establish an organization for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard.
She has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and BAFTA Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006.
- Birth Date:
- October 15, 1957
- Birthplace:
- Rourkela, Orissa, India
- Occupation:
- Film director, film producer
- Years Active:
- 1986-present
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