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Unbridled with Life: Interview with Mira Nair

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Mar.07] :. With The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's popular novel, Mira Nair has found an ideal subject -- a family full of complex characters who spend their lives traversing traditions and expectations.

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The Namesake (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Mar.07] :. Attentive to surfaces as well as nuances, Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, is about legacies and responsibilities, ambitions and dislocations.

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