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...clear, in other words, that subtlety isn’t the point. Instead, as the preparations for an arranged marriage between two wealthy New Delhi families unfold, we engage in the heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Mira Nair ’79 of Salaam Bombay and Mississipi Masala fame has often been criticized for selling Indian poverty in documentary form to the West. Monsoon Wedding represents a stark departure from these previous features. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, it instead celebrates the joys...
...Mira F. Leonard ’04 haughtily declines pot, alcohol and sex. “I did that shit in high school,” she lies...
...Mira F. Leonard ’04, giddy and disturbingly honest the day after she pulled an all-nighter, was telling anecdotes about her collection of Beanie Babies when a friend pointed out that Beanie Babies were a pretty recent phenomenon. “Hey, they really helped me during the SATs,” she said defensively. The stunned silence of her friends prompted an explanation: “They were a good luck charm! I lined them around my desk!” Leonard’s friends have stopped returning her calls...
...divide her time among New York, Kampala and New Delhi, but don't call Mira Nair a global filmmaker. "I'm sitting here looking at films that are a product of global culture, and they don't have a soul," says the director of Monsoon Wedding, who was in Germany this month for the Berlin film festival. "Monsoon is so specifically local...
...been having some bad stomachaches lately. “My stomach has been hurting a lot,” she elaborated. “It’s like this dull pain centered about the, well, the stomach area”...Mira F. Leonard ’04 takes the time to carefully punctuate and spellcheck even the drunkiest of her drunkmails. Writes Leonard: “I am so inebriated; I think I just hooked up with the provost?...