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Nair’s ability to pack every frame with eye-candy has garnered her worldwide attention. Documentaries So Far From India and India Cabaret won international awards, and her first feature film Salaam Bombay! was nominated for an Oscar. Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington, won three awards at the Venice Film Festival. Monsoon Wedding was showered with critical acclaim, while her more daring Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love and The Perez Family sparked controversy...
...from the stock characters of Bollywood, Nair’s subjects are compelling and unusual. She depicts the life of prostitutes in Salaam Bombay and young American immigrants in Mississippi Masala. The protagonist of Monsoon Wedding is worldly and daring as she attempts to deal with her family’s wish for an arranged marriage and her own desire for the man she actually loves. Nair’s 1996 film Kama Sutra was censored in parts of India for its depiction of homosexuality...
...hunks of meat and swab it up with nan the size of a trash can lid. But don't let this modish coarseness fool you: there's nothing back-to-basics about the cooking. The tandoori jhinga?four colossal marinated prawns flavored with yogurt, red chilies, turmeric and garam masala?is sensational. And the sikandari raan, a whole leg of spring lamb soaked in vinegar, cinnamon and cumin and cooked in the tandoor, is irresistibly succulent. Prices are steep for India: a meal for two will cost at least $80. But in a land of conformity, there's little...
...Amtrak to come down from Yale, and I flew in from Cambridge to be with my family. Granted, it wasn’t your traditional Thanksgiving meal—a 20-pound turkey at the center of the table was replaced by two small roasted chickens, slathered in tikka masala, while my brother-in-law pondered the cranberry concoction my sister invented in lieu of cranberry sauce. We didn’t start the meal until well after 8 p.m., since my Muslim family was all fasting for the month of Ramadan, and we hadn’t started cooking...
...interesting, because all of a sudden all we saw was ‘chicken tikka masala, chicken tikka masala, chicken tikka masala...,’” McNitt said...