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...divide her time among New York, Kampala and New Delhi, but don't call Mira Nair a global filmmaker. "I'm sitting here looking at films that are a product of global culture, and they don't have a soul," says the director of Monsoon Wedding, who was in Germany this month for the Berlin film festival. "Monsoon is so specifically local...
...arranged marriage accompanied by Bollywood-style singing and dancing, but the groom is an engineer who lives in Houston. Extended family fly in from Muscat and Melbourne, while the striving, fast-talking wedding planner keeps up a mobile-phone patter with his stock-market-mad mother. Nair insists this world is Indian - and, more to the point, Punjabi and New Delhi - to its core. "It's a film made at my dining table," she says. "The Prada miniskirt in the morning and the sari at night. It's just the way we live...
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...Kuttappi Nair, played with well-timed comedic prowess by Krishnan N. Subrahmaniam ’03, is the middle-aged undertaker and caretaker of two such cemeteries—one Muslim, one Christian...
...Nair '99-'01 and Siri K. Kvalvik will not be having a wedding in either of their hometowns. Jai, from Bethesda, Md., and Siri, from Phoenix, Ariz. didn't think it was fair to hold it in one of their hometowns and make one family fly halfway across the country, so they're having it in Belmont on June 30th to make both halves do the legwork...