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...thesis, Nair submitted the 18-minute “Jama Masjid Street Journal,” a documentary that observes a Muslim community in old Delhi and which Guzzetti praises as “wonderful...
While Guzzetti says Nair felt uncomfortable with “technical stuff,” he says Nair always had “an eye” for seeing a story from start to finish...
...Nair continued making these kind of cinema verite documentary films for seven years after she graduated, but she eventually yearned for the freedom of fiction...
...began to want larger audiences for my work and I began to want to have more control over telling the story,” she says. Nair says that her first foray into fictional filmmaking was driven by the desire to make a film of street kids in the style of a documentary...
...resulting movie, Salaam Bombay!, was Nair’s 1988 debut feature film. It tells the story of the hand-to-mouth existence of a group of street kids in Bombay, bringing Nair to the fore of the public’s attention and earning her an Oscar nomination. Nair went on to prove with her subsequent films that her success was no mere beginner’s luck...