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Next time you hear someone complain they're too busy to be sick, mention the director Mira Nair. When we meet, she's launching a film studio in Bombay, preparing to shoot three movies in India, England and possibly Afghanistan, working on a Broadway musical and creating a film workshop-cum-garden with a view of Lake Victoria near Kampala, in Uganda?all in addition to being a long-distance mother and wife to her family in New York City. Meanwhile, she's been up all night in her Bombay hotel with viral flu and a temperature...
...Even as a director, Nair has had enough triumphs and troughs for a couple of lifetimes. She made her debut in 1988 with Salaam Bombay!, a story of street kids that earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film. In 1991 came Mississippi Masala, a critically acclaimed interracial love story starring Denzel Washington. But that was followed in 1995 by The Perez Family. Despite a cast of Anjelica Huston, Alfred Molina and Marisa Tomei, critics panned the film, with The New Yorker deriding it as "almost unwatchable." Her next movie Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love was universally...
...with fire." And her schedule for 2005 suggests she's far from ready to cool down. She's working on adaptations of The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru, The Namesake by Pulitzer winner Jhumpha Lahiri and Tony Kushner's play Homebody/Kabul. She's setting up the International Behenji Brigade, a Bombay production house with the backing to make three low-budget Asian movies, and Maisha, an annual "filmmakers' laboratory" in Uganda for screenwriters and directors from East Africa and South Asia. And then there's the small matter of transforming Monsoon Wedding into a $14 million musical, complete with a wedding...
...GREETING DELEGATES OUTSIDE BROADWAY SHOWS. DID YOU CHOOSE WHICH ONES? I'm going to Aida, Bombay Dreams and Beauty and the Beast. I do what I'm told...
...taken to introducing herself this way: "I'm Mira Nair. Rhymes with fire." The director of acclaimed independent films like Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding offers the mnemonic to help people pronounce her name. But it could also be a warning. Nair is fiercely passionate about everything, especially the way she makes her movies...