Word: masala
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Directed by Mira Nair '79, maker of "Mississippi Masala," "The Perez Family" is the best movie to come along this year. A luminous, carnal comedy about love, exile and the immigrant experience among Miami's Cubans, Nair's film is delightful as the blossoming spring...
Hussein, a co-founder of the Massachusetts AreaSouth Asian Lambda Association (MASALA), whichbegan last year, said cultural approaches tosexuality in India are different from those in theU.S. He said Indian society does not discouragegay men from marrying while also maintaininghomosexual relationships...
Thank you for your feature story on Mira Nair ("A Harvard Filmmaker Stirs Things Up" November 11, 1993). We are pleased that attention was given to the screening of "Mississippi Masala" and the reception with Nair the next day. The event came about as a result of the diligent efforts of Education for Action and the South Asian Association...
...make the movies she wanted to make. "They send you the next sort of Meg Ryan comedy, and you can easily get $20 million...So if you demonstrate that you're not interested and that you're interested in something else, that is a struggle, big struggle." For "Mississippi Masala," Nair lost the backing of several financiers who didn't think movie could succeed without a white protagonist...
...Family," starring Angelica Huston, about a group of Cubans who were exiled by Castro in 1980. Although this time she didn't write the screenplay, the film promises to explore the familiar subject of people in cultural limbo, to find the universal in the specific--to be her "Miami Masala." There is no end in sight to Nair's criss-crossing the boundaries of identity. The world holds a limitless supply of stories on the fringes of Hollywood formulas, stories that satisfy Nair's outsider sensibility and popular focus...