Word: nair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Film makers must steer clear of Hollywood's glamour if they are to produce worthwhile movies, Mira Nair '78 said at Radcliffe College's Rama Mehta Lecture last night...
...Nair explained that her films explore the stories of people who "live on the margins of society...
...want to create a world that is so desperately local that it becomes universal," Nair told an audience of about 400. "I want to tell a story with gesture and light and a certain kind of face...
...amused and disgusted by Hollywood people who have little time to look beyond films and who are increasingly making films about films," Nair said...
MISSISSIPPI MASALA. Ethnic rancor in the deep South -- this time between a genial black businessman (Denzel Washington) and an Indian family emigrated from Africa. Director Mira Nair, who artfully depicted a boy's slum life in Salaam Bombay!, cannot make the human ambiguities compelling here. Characters - strike attitudes, not heartstrings, and seem stranded in a Mississippi mishmash...