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...Personally, I still think Nair??s best film, and her most serious work, was Salaam Bombay!, which, while not a documentary…was powerful and affecting,” Fonseca says...
Next fall Fonseca will teach the seminar Indian Studies 115: “Voices of Indian Women in Literature and Film.” When she last offered a similar course, she says students frequently referred to Nair??s films in discussion. The class watched clips from Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding, examining issues of race, gender and culture...
...Nair??s two-acre home in Kampala, Uganda is dotted with trees she’s planted. She speaks excitedly about her green thumb, discussing her newly-sowed mango grove and the 61 trees she put in last summer...
...says she hopes one day she’ll have grandchildren to appreciate her planting efforts. Nair??s mother always wanted a baby girl, while her father fretted about the expense of raising a daughter in India. Nair??s son is now a pre-schooler in New York City, where Nair teaches film at Columbia University. Her family divides its time between Kampala, New York City and New Delhi...
...Mira Nair??s work will screen at the Harvard Film Archive in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts on Friday and Sunday. Nair will also discuss her work in a talk moderated by actor John Lithgow ’67 at Sanders Theatre on Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets are free and available through the Harvard Box Office...