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Film makers must steer clear of Hollywood's glamour if they are to produce worthwhile movies, Mira Nair '78 said at Radcliffe College's Rama Mehta Lecture last night...
...Nair explained that her films explore the stories of people who "live on the margins of society...
MISSISSIPPI MASALA. Ethnic rancor in the deep South -- this time between a genial black businessman (Denzel Washington) and an Indian family emigrated from Africa. Director Mira Nair, who artfully depicted a boy's slum life in Salaam Bombay!, cannot make the human ambiguities compelling here. Characters - strike attitudes, not heartstrings, and seem stranded in a Mississippi mishmash...
...Nair grew restless. "I was tired of waiting for things to happen," she says, referring to the serendipitous nature of the documentary film process. "I wanted to make them happen." Working with an idea in 1983 for a documentary about Bombay street kids, she decided instead to turn their stories into a feature film. Salaam Bombay!, made on a $900,000 budget, was a commercial as well as a critical success; Nair used part of the profits to provide educational, medical and vocational services for street children...
CINEMA Director Mira Nair looks at America through a multicolored lens...