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...cast of performers share as remarkable a fusion as the styles they bring together, and director Bianca Mahmood ’06 cites this as Ghungroo’s biggest strength...
...most rewarding this is working with these people, and bringing so many people together in a community,” Mahmood said. “The Saturday night show, our parents and alumni performance, has been sold out for two weeks. What the audience feels in the energy of the show is this investment in the community.” It is this energy, one may surmise, that draws so many more people each year...
...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 skewered, and even Nair disowned it as an "aberration." In 1997 she moved to South Africa with her second husband, Mahmood Mamdani?now an anthropology professor at Columbia?to look after their son Zohran and, it seemed, to withdraw from directing into the life of a suburban housewife...
Nair grew up in Bhubaneswar, India, 300 miles south of Calcutta, and later studied film at Harvard. These days she lives mostly in New York City (she teaches at Columbia University) and Kampala, Uganda (her husband Mahmood Mamdani is a native). But her connection to Thackeray is long-standing. "I've actively loved this novel since I was 16," she says. The broad strokes of India in the film, she adds defensively, are mostly from Thackeray, who spent his early childhood in what was then a British colony. "My criterion for doing something is, Can I think of anyone else...
While working on these various projects, Nair divides her time primarily between New York, where her son Zohran attends school and her husband Mahmood Mamdani is a government professor at Columbia University, and her home in Kampala, Uganda, where Nair is an avid gardener. Her family also spends time in a home in New Delhi...