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Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair director Mira Nair has spoken out against the negative attitude of top Bollywood stars when it comes to HIV/AIDS awareness. She is slated to direct one of four short films aiming to spread awareness about the disease. These films are to be shown in theaters prior to the screening of Bollywood feature films. However, she hasn’t been able to get any top stars to sign on for the project. It’s unfortunate that a project that could really help educate people isn’t given attention by celebrities. After all, Bollywood stars are huge in India, and they’re just the people who can influence people to learn more about the disease.
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Mira Nair was struck speechless by the novel – in part because the story seemed to so closely reflect her own experience. "Here was the story of a young girl who traveled from Calcutta and wound up in New York City, which is almost precisely the same road I traveled,†notes the director. "I thought it was a deeply human story about the millions of us in America who have left one home for another and learned what it truly means to combine the old with the new.â€
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Indian director Mira Nair was interviewed in New York by the Delhi Times on the eve of the US premier of her latest film, Vanity Fair. During the interview, she confirmed a rumor that had been originally printed on Brazilian entertainment site Cinema em Cena.
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Born in India and educated at Delhi University and Harvard, Mira Nair is director of the just-out The Namesake (2007, Fox, PG-13, $28), which likely will gain a robust following on DVD. She has amassed an impressive body of work since an acclaimed debut that was more grim than most of her output.
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Award-winning director Mira Nair will speak in Grand Rapids on Thursday, February 23, 2006, at 7 pm in the Gezon Auditorium on the campus of Calvin College. An author reception will follow the presentation, which is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 6:30 pm and a sign-language interpreter will be provided.
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Over the span of her extensive career, Nair has championed several programs that encourage a newer generation of filmmakers and artists to tell their own stories and describe their unique experience. Recently, she was invited to be the film mentor for the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative where she will join fellow mentors Jessye Norman, Sir Peter Hall, David ockney, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Saburo Teshigawara. Nair has chosen Aditya Assarat as her protégé and will guide the young Thai writer-director through the process of making his first feature film, Hi-So. She currently lives between Kampala and New York City with her husband, Mahmood Mamdani, and their son, Zohran.
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