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Mira Nair's The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, will open the Indo-American Arts Council's 6th IAAC Film Festival in New York on Nov 1. The premiere will be held at Ziegfeld, the finest theatre in New York, with over 1200 seats.
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Mumbai, Sep 24 - New York-based Indian filmmaker Mira Nair likely to push Tabu's name for an Oscar nomination this year. The talented actress played the central role in her film 'The Namesake'.
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Nair's latest film, The Namesake, an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel of the same name, tells the story of the immigrant Ganguli family. The parents, Ashima and Ashoke, immigrate from Calcutta shortly after an arranged marriage and eventually settle in a middle-class suburb outside New York City. Their son, Gogol, struggles with his parents and begins to shun aspects of Bengali culture. That strain lies at the heart of the film, which examines the complexities of immigration, grief, and familial ties.
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Nair's ambitious The Namesake is her adaptation of the National Book Award-winning novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, telling of the journey of an Indian-American architect and his parents from Calcutta to New York. In the lead role is Kal Penn, here rescued from the dumb comedies he has been trapped in since he played a certain burger-seeking New Jerseyite. And Penn proves himself likely to become the first Indian romantic lead in American movies.
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Nair said books by Jane Austen and other 19th-century writers never interested her. Through Sharp, author William Makepeace Thackeray presented a new kind of world, one where women showed strength and resolve.
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Her latest film, The Namesake, premiered in the fall of 2006 at Dartmouth College where Nair was presented with the Dartmouth Film Award. The Dartmouth Film Award, established in 1979, honors outstanding contributors to film and filmmaking. Previous winners have included Johnny Depp, Robert Redford, Liv Ullman, Ken Burns, Ang Lee, Glenn Close, and Meryl Streep. Another premiere was held in fall 2006 with the Indo-American Cultural Council in New York. The Namesake, adapted by Sooni Taraporevala from the novel by Pulitzer prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, was released in March of 2007.
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