Word: nair
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...elements of cultural tension: Even as the family prepares to celebrate an arranged marriage, they speak in a jumble of Hindi and English (the young men tell everyone to “chill” in English, while grandmothers speak only Hindi) and the girls read Cosmopolitan. While Nair evidently reveres traditional culture through her attention to details during the wedding preparations, she highlights the liberating effects of western culture on the more suffocating elements of daily Indian life...
This year, he will mediate a conversation with Mira Nair ’79, who directed the film Monsoon Wedding...
...Mira Nair ’79 were a yoga pose, she would be the headstand, or sirshana...
Standing on your head isn’t easy—but then, it’s not the straightforward that Nair is after...
...moment, he seems close to tears, but Nair soon changes the subject and the artistic tempest passes. It's not that Adoor truly thinks segments of his audience are stupid (he prefers the term "uninitiated"); again and again he tells me that he wants more exposure in India. It's just that he refuses to take the audience, or anyone else, into consideration when making a film. If that means the ideal audience for an Adoor Gopalakrishnan film is ultimately Adoor Gopalakrishnan, so be it, and let no one question...