Word: nair
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...Nair claims to be mellowing. "I find I am less restless now," she says. For two years, she has started each day on set 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...
...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...
...Nair, "energy and obsession" are everything. "I've always worked independently," she says. "Vanity Fair has a Hollywood budget, but it's completely an independent filmmaker's film." These days, she's regularly courted by Hollywood, but the turbulence of her career has taught Nair that her flavor-of-the-month status won't last. In any case, Mamdani says, that isn't the objective. Nair is "driven more by passion than ambition," he says. This has afforded her a rare artistic license in what is often a timidly conventional profession. "When I have passion for something," says Nair...
...True to form, Nair's vision of her future is as exuberantly eccentric and visually eye-catching as her films. "When I am 50," she declares, "I want to be standing in a beautiful, open, rustic space with a view of Lake Victoria with a group of extraordinary filmmakers, all of whom know how to do a headstand." As always with Nair, it promises to be quite a spectacle...
...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...