Word: nair
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...Harvard, Nair discovered a burgeoning passion for filmmaking that ripened into a lifelong pursuit...
...first green attempts at making movies occurred when she was a sophomore at the College in a musty room in the basement of Sever Hall for the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). Since then, Nair has built an international reputation as a gifted independent filmmaker who declines to conform to the mainstream film industries of either Hollywood or Bollywood, the booming South Asian commercial film industry that produces as many as 800 motion pictures a year...
...Nair rejects formulas in favor of spinning unvarnished, starkly honest stories of believable people. Her films resonate with audiences because of their fierce insistence on the truth. Her track record, which includes an Oscar nomination and a host of other accolades, testifies to the success of her efforts...
...Nair seems to have always yearned to tell the stories of real people. As a young woman growing up in India in the ’60s and ’70s, Nair was entranced by theater...
...captivated by all kinds of progressive theater in India. Nair was at first inspired by “jatra,” a form of traditional traveling mythological theater, before later getting caught up in political protest theater in Calcutta. Eventually, avant-garde and guerilla theater captured her interest...