Mira Nair
Producer, Actor, and Director
New on DVD: 'Transformers 2,' 'Cheri' and more...but failed to establish her as a top-rank auteur. Criterion's lovely, features-packed DVD and Blu-ray editions of Nair's sprawling 2001 hit "Monsoon Wedding" might just burnish her rep. In addition to the film itself - a funny,... In this article: DVD, Cheri, Mira Nair, John Cleese, Homicide: Life on the Street, Blu-ray, Connie Booth, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Monsoon Wedding |
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San Jose Mercury News | October 23, 2009
Review: 'Amelia' fails to take flight
...Baby" intensity. These moments are all too fleeting, since Swank and Nair ("Monsoon Wedding") focus on appearances such as Earhart's huge smile and homey charisma, rather than burrowing into this woman's background and soul. The most...
In this article: Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Amelia, Richard Gere, Ron Bass, Hilary Swank, and Oscar
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Fox News | October 16, 2009
Hilary Swank Becomes Amelia Earhart
...most talked-about journeys in history. AMELIA is directed by Mira Nair (THE NAMESAKE, VANITY FAIR, MONSOON WEDDING) from a screenplay by Academy Award winner Ron Bass (RAIN MAN) and Anna Hamilton Phelan. The film is produced by Ted Waitt,...
In this article: Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank, Amelia, Academy Award, George P. Putnam, Ron Bass, Rain Man, and All rights reserved
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PopMatters | November 12, 2009
Monsoon Wedding (The Criterion Collection) (Review)
The booklet provided with the discs features an essay by Pico Ayer that offers a critical appreciation of Monsoon Wedding and a synthesis of Nair's body of work, particularly pulling in the shorts included in the set. The shift to...
In this article: Monsoon Wedding, Lillete Dubey, Naseeruddin Shah, India, DVD, Tillotama Shome, and Vijay Raaz
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USATODAY.com Movies - Top Stories | October 25, 2009
Bland biopic fails to capture Amelia Earhart's soaring spirit
...portrait of the record-breaking aviator. Hilary Swank is a plucky Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and director Mira Nair has fashioned a sweeping and handsome film. But it falls short of Nair's best work,...
In this article: Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank, George Putnam, Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Atlantic, Christopher Eccleston, and The Namesake
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Kansas City Star | October 23, 2009
Amelia'
...Gere as the wind beneath her wings. A filmmaker who customarily explores interior landscapes, Nair ("Monsoon Wedding," "The Namesake") exhilarates in Earhart's perspective, both scenic and existential. Whether looking out on frolicking...
In this article: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Atlantic, Amelia, Girl, Interrupted, Ewan McGregor, and Giraffe
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Yahoo! News | November 04, 2009
Amelia struggled to get airborne (Reuters)
...film, a biopic of Mary Queen of Scots, at which point Hyman approached Nair to take over the film. Nair joined the project in January 2008. Although Nair might seem an unusual choice -- she had, after all, come to fame with such Bollywood...
In this article: Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Ron Bass, Ted Waitt, Electra Junior, Hilary Swank, and Hachiko: A Dog's Story
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | November 12, 2009
Film review: Amelia
...and confound the chauvinistic attitudes of the day, and fails to engage in any meaningful way with her complex love life, which saw her reluctantly marry her publicist and publisher George Puttnam (Richard Gere) then take up with...
In this article: Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Oscar, Monsoon Wedding, and Vanity Fair
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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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