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Mira Nair: Delhi University
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In einer kleinen Stadt im nordindischen Bundesstaat Orissa wuchs Mira Nair als Jüngste von drei Geschwistern einer Mittelschichtsfamilie auf. Sie besuchte eine katholische Schule. Nach ihrem Abitur in Shimla studierte sie zunächst Sozialwissenschaften an der hauptstädtischen Delhi University. Zunächst hobbymäßig erarbeitete sie sich hier über mehrere Jahre die Fertigkeiten einer Straßen- und Amateurtheaterschauspielerin. Als 19-jährige ging sie mit einem aufgrund entsprechender Leistungsnachweise erworbenen Stipendium nach Harvard. Drei Jahre später bereits präsentierte sie ihren ersten eigenen Film, Jama Masjid Street Journal.
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Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa in 1957. She went on to attend the University of New Delhi where she studied Sociology and Theater. Dissatisfied with the quality of the education, she applied elsewhere. As result she came to Harvard in 1976 on full scholarship to continue studying Sociology. While at Harvard her focus drifted to documentary film. She describes documentary as "a marriage of my interests in the visual arts, theatre, and life as it is lived" (CurBio 424).
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Ms Mira Nair was born in 1958 in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa. Her parents are from Punjab.At the age of 13, she attended a boarding school in Shimla, where she became a passionate student of dramatics and acted in school theatre productions. After graduating from New Delhi, she went to United States on a theater scholarship to Harvard.
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Born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India in 1957, Nair began her studies in Sociology and Theater at the University of New Delhi. Seeking greater challenges, she eventually was admitted to Harvard on a full scholarship, and there she began to develop an interest in documentary film. Her very first film, Jama Masjid Street Journal, was her Master's thesis project.
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Striking in a deep red sari, her large eyes almost unblinking, Nair comments on the strange quiet of Toronto as compared to her recent sojourns. She was born in a small town in India called Bhubaneswar – she recalls seeing a censored version of Dr. Zhivago at the one local theatre – and attended university in Delhi and at Harvard before becoming a documentary filmmaker. Now 49, Nair has a 15-year-old son with her husband, a sociology professor in Uganda.
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Nair contrasts working-class Delhi with the emerging upper middle class. Between the color and glamour of the wedding ceremony, Nair shows images of bustling Delhi during rush hour. Stepping away from traditional Bollywood films, she incorporates the strong western influence present in modern day India. The primary language of the film is Hindi... English is frequently spoken as due Aditi’s father is a businessman and Hemant lives in the United States. Mira Nair described her film as “the ultimate love song to Delhi.” Showing the city both in its traditional aspect and one susceptible to western influence runs parallel to the gathering of the families for the wedding. Children participating in traditional ceremonies and grandparents dancing to modern music reflect the changing times.
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