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...until Spike Lee wrote one for him for his movie "Mo' Better Blues." Lee provided Washington with another plum role when he cast him as the lead in "Malcolm X." Another one of Washington's best roles came in "Mississippi Masala," a movie directed by an Indian director, Mira Nair. "Training Day" was directed by a black filmmaker, Antoine Fuqua...
...relatives are arriving for a wedding the father can't afford, his daughter is dubious about (she has been having an affair with a slick TV host) and many of the guests and servants are distracted from as they pursue their own romantic interests. Though director Mira Nair and writer Sabrina Dhawan manage to pull a persuasively perverse thread through their canvas, their main line of business is frenzy. Anyone who has ever staged a big wedding on a tight budget will adore the many ways they work their central joke...
...clear, in other words, that subtlety isn’t the point. Instead, as the preparations for an arranged marriage between two wealthy New Delhi families unfold, we engage in the heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Mira Nair ’79 of Salaam Bombay and Mississipi Masala fame has often been criticized for selling Indian poverty in documentary form to the West. Monsoon Wedding represents a stark departure from these previous features. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, it instead celebrates the joys...
Directed by Mira Nair...
TIME: . Did you have a big wedding like the one in the film? Nair: No, no, no, no. Well, my first wedding was a bit like this. But all my uncles, all my brothers - everybody has been to a family wedding like this...