The Namesake

Features

Unbridled with Life: Interview with Mira Nair

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [22 March 2007]

Reviews

The Namesake

By Josh Timmermann

Whatever else you get out of this movie -- a give-take equation that depends largely on your willingness to follow Nair’s lead -- it’s worth watching for Tabu’s superlative turn alone, which would earn her an Oscar if there were any justice in the First World. [28 November 2007]

The Namesake (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [12 March 2007]