The Namesake

Penn acted in popular TV serials including 24 and House, as well as comedy film series Harold and Kumar and crossovers like The Namesake. Mumbai-born actor and writer Aasif Mandvi has done well on the popular American TV comedy...

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...22. Best known as a talented screen writer who has worked closely with film maker Mira Nair on such movies as Salaam Bombay! and The Namesake, Taraporevala was in Paris last week for the exhibition and for a double screening of her...

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...that she ever had a meltdown. To construct such a character isn't easy." Searchlight, which released Nair's 2006 drama "The Namesake," joined the project in early 2008. But Waitt was the source of the film's budget, while the studio...

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...-- she gets the voice, the stance, everything from the old newsreels -- yet academic and a little bloodless. Director Mira Nair ("The Namesake," PG-13, 2006; "Vanity Fair," PG-13, 2004) has taken a rather staid approach here. Were she...

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...intensity of a film like "Out of Africa. " Searchlight also had strong relationships with the film's talent, having released Nair's "The Namesake" and Swank's "Boys Don't Cry. " But movies are all about execution, not just expectations, and...

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...George Putnam (Richard Gere) in hopes of financing a flight (she also eventually marries him). Nair, who directed the gorgeous The Namesake -- a far more evocative study of human bonds and behavior -- may have figured no lengthy...

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...in 1937. Earhart was, in short, an unconventional woman. Extraordinary, even. So why does this biography, directed by Mira Nair ("The Namesake") from a script by Ron Bass and Ann Hamilton Phelan, feel so . . . by the book? (Two,...

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...Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), the father of writer Gore Vidal. Director Mira Nair, who brought such passion to her Indian-themed films ("The Namesake," "Monsoon Wedding," even "Vanity Fair"), is hamstrung by a bloodless script (by "Rain...

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...my ecstasy is really in the sky - all I want to do is fly.' And that hooked me." Many of Nair's films, from Mississippi Masala to The Namesake, explore themes of heritage and tradition. Above, Tillotama Shome picks at a marigold in Monsoon...

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...to create interesting characters or avoid self-indulgence. As a result, even experienced filmmakers such as Mira Nair ("The Namesake") turn in what feel like immature efforts. In nearly every instance, fine actors spout drivel. Robin...

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