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Nair has called her filmmaking style “Bollywood on my own terms.” While Nair??s films certainly have the flavor, music and color typical of Indian filmmaking, something beyond Bollywood draws the viewer’s attention...
...Nair??s films certainly don’t typify the Bollywood formula,” Fonseca says. “They are generally more sophisticated. Her films are successful and compelling precisely because [of their] frankness and storytelling flair…The viewer can identify with the characters and is soon completely hooked...
...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...
...Nair??s best known work, Monsoon Wedding, is the eighth-highest-grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S. Shot in just 30 days on real sets, this story of a Punjabi-arranged wedding received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival...
Elvis Mitchell’s New York Times review of Monsoon Wedding praised the realism of its hand-held camera work and Nair??s ability to turn the slightly clichéd plot into something beyond soap opera...