MIRA NAIR began her career as a documentarian and then went on to make fiction films including one of Denzel Washington’s first features Mississippi Masala (1991).
Born and raised in India, Nair moved to the United States to study on a scholarship at Harvard before embarking on her film career.
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Where to watch her films:
AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):
2014Words with Gods (segment “God Room”)
2009Amelia
20088 (segment “How can it be?”)
2008New York, I Love You (segment “Mira Nair”)
2008/IMigration (Short)
2006The Namesake
2004Vanity Fair
2002September 11 (segment “India”)
2002Hysterical Blindness (TV Movie)
2001The Laughing Club of India (TV Short documentary)
2001Monsoon Wedding
1998My Own Country (TV Movie)
1995The Perez Family
1993The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (Short)
1988Salaam Bombay!
1987Children of a Desired Sex (TV Movie documentary)
1985India Cabaret (TV Movie documentary)
1983So Far from India (Documentary)
1979Jama Masjid Street Journal (Documentary)