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Despite her success, Nair's interests in people on the margins and in exile often leave her short of cash. "If you make films that are about people of color you have much less money to make them," she explains. After the critical acclaim she received for "Salaam Bombay"--a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival and a nomination for an Academy Award--Nair was approached by Hollywood producers who offered her money, but not to make the movies she wanted to make. "They send you the next sort of Meg Ryan comedy, and you can easily...
...Nair would be the first to admit, however, that she seeks a mass audience. "I find myself very much a commercial filmmaker. I really know that I want a big audience. I think in a quirky and funny and funky way, but I also know that I'm not thinking about that just for its own sake. I also think about it in a way that can be interpreted by a bigger audience. Because I want to reach them." In fact. Nair had a $30 million project lined up with Warner Brothers to make an epic movie about the life...
With her research from the aborted Buddha project, Nair wrote her own film: "Kamasutra," an erotic comedy which takes place in a 15th-century fort out side of Delhi. She relates, "You know [the Kamasutra] is very popularly denigrated as a manual of how to make love. But it has a very deep philosophy attached to it. And the film is about that philosophy. Either you can approach love as...just the skill of making it. Or, if you approach it with a partner,...you have...the skill of making love--but with the spirit. If the spirit is correct...
Currently, Nair is shooting a film called "The Perez Family," starring Angelica Huston, about a group of Cubans who were exiled by Castro in 1980. Although this time she didn't write the screenplay, the film promises to explore the familiar subject of people in cultural limbo, to find the universal in the specific--to be her "Miami Masala." There is no end in sight to Nair's criss-crossing the boundaries of identity. The world holds a limitless supply of stories on the fringes of Hollywood formulas, stories that satisfy Nair's outsider sensibility and popular focus...
...material for this article came from a personal interview with Mira Nair and from a taped informal discussion with Nair, sponsored by Education for Action...