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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...
...seems fitting that Mira Nair, the renowned film director and producer who achieved international acclaim with her hit film Monsoon Wedding, would have come to Harvard because she saw the campus in a movie...
Previous recipients of the award include Jack Lemmon ’47, John Updike ’54 and Mira Nair...
...this year’s honored Arts Medal recipient, Ma’s name will be added to an elite list of past-winning Harvard alumni that includes filmmaker Mira Nair ’79, director Peter Sellars ’80, author John Updike ’54, singer Bonnie Raitt ’72 and the late actor Jack Lemmon...
...most part, Indians are more successful behind the camera than in front of it. M. Night Shyamalan made the megahits The Sixth Sense and Signs. Mira Nair, director of Salaam Bombay and Monsoon Wedding, is making an Indian-infused take on Vanity Fair, with Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp. And Nair has a three-film slate for her company, International Bhenji Brigade, financed by an Indian businessman...