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...color," says Juliette Lewis, describing why she signed to star with Uma Thurman in Nair's 2002 HBO production Hysterical Blindness. "I'm always looking for the freshest filmmakers out there, and there this was, almost an epic, with the universal human appeal of a family drama and with Mira's distinct visual style." Hysterical Blindness, about the loves and loneliness of three women in 1980s New Jersey, picked up three Emmys and a Golden Globe...
...plays in New Delhi. By 18, studying and performing at university in the Indian capital, Nair was applying to every U.S. college she could think of, already displaying the resolve and energy that would mark her life. Mamdani describes film as Nair's ideal medium. "Mira often says she left documentaries for fiction because she got tired of waiting for things to happen." The role of the headstrong itinerant is not without a price, however. Time and again, Nair returns on screen to themes of displacement and immigration, the ache of exile. "The parallels between her and Becky Sharp...
...with a yoga session. But for true calm, it has to be the garden. "To think I would ever get excited about watching something grow," she says. "It teaches you about rhythm and patience." Despite such claims, she still likes to introduce herself with the line "I'm Mira Nair. Rhymes 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...
...Then again, Nair's best work is often her most frantic. She shot Hysterical Blindness in just 28 days?two days faster even than Monsoon Wedding. "It was 17-hour days for four weeks," says Lewis. "Mira's eyes were just wide and beaming through all of it. She's the most visionary director I've ever worked with." Naseeruddin Shah, who plays the father in Monsoon Wedding, adds: "She's a dynamo. We'd be filming at 3 a.m., and she'd still be generating this energy that affected us all." Vanity Fair star Witherspoon was similarly struck...
...have to like Becky, and thanks to Reese Witherspoon's perky performance we do, not least because we have all been in her position, desperate to impress our betters. Moreover, director Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama?populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne?of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...